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Melissa Virus: Smith To Remain On Bail
News Smith, 30, of Aberdeen, N.J.was last week charged with allegedly spreading the Melissa virus and released on $100,000 (£61,000) bail. Take me to the Melissa Virus special. David L. Smith's attorney of just 36 hours, Edward Borden, said today that...
[April 7, 1999, 9:31]
Melissa Virus Lives On
News Mutations of the Melissa computer virus have appeared over the last month, haunting 10 companies in the past week, according to an anti-virus firm. Recently, two variants of the Melissa virus -- Melissa.U and Melissa.V -- and VBS.Freelink, a Visual...
[October 18, 1999, 11:42]
'Melissa' Virus Infections Escalate
News Anti-virus firm MacAfee, a unit of Network Associates Inc.reported that Melissa had hit 20 large companies representing over 60,000 computers. The Melissa virus is essentially a simple Word macro, which is a script for automating tasks within Word...
[March 28, 1999, 19:01]
A Year Ago: Melissa Virus Lives On
News Mutations of the Melissa computer virus have appeared over the last month, haunting 10 companies in the past week, according to an anti-virus firm. Recently, two variants of the Melissa virus -- Melissa.U and Melissa.V -- and VBS.Freelink, a Visual...
[October 18, 2000, 7:01]
Melissa Virus Suspect To Enter Plea
News Smith, the programmer who allegedly wrote and released the Melissa macro virus onto the Internet, will enter a plea in both US federal and state district courts on Thursday. Take me to the Melissa Virus Special.
[December 9, 1999, 10:07]
Virus Writers Wait Anxiously For Melissa Verdict
News Graham Cluley of Sophos Anti-Virus says many sites frequented by virus writers have been shutting down in the wake of the Melissa Virus trial, including Japanese Web site Sok4ever.com, which vanished just days ago.
[February 16, 2000, 14:26]
Melissa Virus: Man Charged
News Take me to the Melissa virus special. The Melissa virus appeared last Friday and spread rapidly around the world on Monday like a malicious chain letter, causing affected computers to fire off dozens of infected messages to friends and colleagues...
[April 6, 1999, 8:42]
News Burst: Lucent Hit By Melissa Virus
News According to the spokeswoman the Melissa virus was discovered late Friday, forcing the company to shut down e-mail systems. The spokeswoman confirmed that no outgoing or incoming e-mail has been sent or received since Monday.
[March 31, 1999, 14:27]
The Hunt For Melissa Leads To 'ex' Virus Writer
News Take me to the Melissa Virus News Special. Code written by VicodinES has been linked to the Melissa virus, which has run wild on the Net since first appearing last Friday. Whoever wrote Melissa built the virus around a Word file originally created...
[March 30, 1999, 9:17]
Spies Hit Disney? No, Just Melissa
News The Melissa virus was behind an email spam from Walt Disney Co. Disney inadvertently spammed a host of press members on Wednesday with an internal memo, because the Melissa.A virus, which had infected the memo, mailed out the attachment to a list...
[November 18, 1999, 14:24]
News Burst: Spawn Of Melissa Discovered
News Melissa U.and Melissa V.are the unholy offspring of the original Melissa virus that caused so much panic among computer users earlier this year. They operate in a similar way to the original miscreant program utilising Microsoft Word macro to gain...
[October 15, 1999, 11:51]
New Virus From Same Source As Melissa?
News The anti-virus company that recently upgraded the Suppl.doc virus to a category "medium/on watch" threat has suggested a possible link between this virus and Melissa, and expressed concern over the way the virus is continuing to spread.
[September 22, 1999, 17:11]
Spawn Of Melissa Discovered
News Two new mutations of the world's most infamous virus, Melissa, have been placed on the "watch list" by the AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team) at Network Associates. Melissa U.and Melissa V.are the unholy offspring of the original Melissa...
[October 15, 1999, 14:46]
'ILOVEYOU' Comes To America
News Several users across America have reported the Melissa-like virus referred to as "ILOVEYOU", which apparently started in Asia, has attacked their PCs. A security firm has estimated the virus is spreading many times faster than the destructive...
[May 4, 2000, 13:35]
Study: Virus Infections Multiply
News In its annual Computer Virus Prevalence Survey, the ICSA pointed to macro viruses, such as Melissa and the Class virus, as the main threat to corporations. In late March, a Word macro virus named Melissa spread using e-mail.
[July 26, 1999, 7:54]
Worm Hits Corporate Networks Hard
News "Judging from the number of reports we have had, this looks a little less prevalent than Melissa," said David Chess, an anti-virus researcher at IBM Corp.s Watson Research Laboratory in Hawthorne, N.Y.
[June 14, 1999, 8:36]
She's Back, Only Different
News Two more Melissa variants popped up this month; the latest eluded the most sophisticated anti-virus software. IT managers wondering why variants of the Melissa virus are proliferating need only look to the field of agriculture for the answer.
[October 25, 1999, 8:12]
A Year Ago: Melissa Stalks The City
News Several firms in the City of London including investment bank, Investco and solicitors Travers Smith Braithwaite were hit by the Melissa virus over the weekend according to sources. Robert Turner from the IT department of Travers Smith Braithwaite...
[March 29, 2000, 7:00]
Melissa Mutations Keep Coming
News The new virus, called Melissa.U(Gen 1), has hit one U.S.company with 30,000 computers, according to Symantec's AntiVirus Research Centre. Because the virus is a corrupted version of the Melissa.U virus that surfaced last week, it's been flying...
[October 19, 1999, 9:13]
Daughter Of Melissa Strikes British Businesses
News At least five major UK businesses, including a bank, have been hit by the so called 'daughter of Melissa' virus, Prilissa, according to ISP, Star Internet and anti-virus firm Network Associates. The Prilissa virus spreads in a similar way to the...
[November 24, 1999, 15:02]
