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Melissa virus suspect to enter plea

...David L. Smith, the programmer who allegedly wrote and released the Melissa macro virus onto the Internet, will enter a plea in both US federal... Read more

9 December, 1999 by ZDNet

Epidemic virus infects corporate e-mail

...division of Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC) also reported problems resulting from the macro virus. A public relations spokesperson acknowledged that some of the company's... Read more

27 March, 1999 by Lisa M.Bowman and Mary Jo Foley

Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice

...the Russian company's Viruslist Web site on Tuesday. "Stardust is a macro virus written for StarOffice, the first one I've seen," the researcher... Read more

1 June, 2006 by Joris Evers

A Year Ago: Epidemic virus infects corporate e-mail

...customers -- including Microsoft and Intel Corp. -- are being hit hard by a macro virus that is replicating infected pornography-related information throughout corporate email systems... Read more

28 March, 2000 by Lisa M.Bowman and Mary Jo Foley

A Year Ago: Epidemic virus infects corporate email

...the software giant itself and Intel -- are being hit hard by a macro virus that is replicating infected pornography-related information throughout corporate email systems... Read more

27 March, 2000 by Lisa M.Bowman and Mary Jo Foley

Melissa manhunt creates precedent

...led investigators to a phone number and then the newsgroup where the macro virus was first posted. A controversial Microsoft document identification technology -- the Global... Read more

7 April, 1999 by Joel Deane

Text of FBI 'Melissa' warning

...1999, of the proliferation of a computer virus known as the "Melissa Macro Virus" (MMV). There have been widespread reports of propagation of this virus... Read more

29 March, 1999 by ZDNet

Newsgroups reflect virus' scope, speed

...After checking for inquiries, located a slough of submissions for this new macro virus, the first at about 8am from Norway. The messages were coming... Read more

28 March, 1999 by Sean Silverthorne

Macro viruses now half of top 10 viruses

...list. The most seen virus in December was the WM/Cap Word Macro virus while other macro viruses that infect Word also figure prominently: WM... Read more

13 January, 1998 by Martin Veitch

One Year Ago: Dr Solomon's claims macro virus breakthrough

...our detection technique is the most important thing in viruses since the macro virus itself." However, Cluley said that viruses can't be cured in... Read more

12 May, 1998 by Martin Veitch

Dr Solomon's claims macro virus breakthrough

...our detection technique is the most important thing in viruses since the macro virus itself." However, Cluley said that viruses can't be cured in... Read more

12 May, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Dr Solomon's posts Excel macro virus fix

...has posted a detector for the ExcelMacro/Laroux virus, the first replicating Macro virus able to infect Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. The driver is available on... Read more

26 July, 1996 by Martin Veitch

Thursday virus reaches Blighty

The virus, which is activated on December 13, is a macro virus which infects Word 97 documents. Jack Clark, product manager at Network... Read more

2 September, 1999 by Jane Wakefield

News Burst: Network Associates' virus warning

...today that it has received numerous infection reports about the Thursday Word Macro virus over the past 24 hours Read more

2 September, 1999 by Margaret Kane

Experts: 'Melissa' capable of espionage

The 'Melissa' macro virus that forwards files to other e-mail addresses may be passing... Read more

29 March, 1999 by ZDNet

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