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Melissa-X remains contained
News European antivirus specialists report Friday that a new virus based on Melissa has hit a limited number of companies in Europe. Since reports of the virus, dubbed Melissa-X and Melissa 2001, started coming in Thursday, Chien says that Symantec has...
[January 19, 2001, 13:45]
A Year Ago: Melissa virus lives on
News Emailed from a trusted source, Design Continuum -- and its unnamed clients -- had fallen victim to the trick that made Melissa so virulent: its packaging. Mutations of the Melissa computer virus have appeared over the last month, haunting 10...
[October 18, 2000, 7:01]
Melissa hits the UK
News The Melissa virus has hit at least ten major corporations in the US since Friday and by lunch time today, UK experts believe several corporate networks in Britain could be hit. Symantec has a fix for the Melissa Virus which can be downloaded using...
[March 29, 1999, 12:03]
Melissa: A befuddled 'Sky Roket' denies virus blame
News Sky Roket, the America Online account used to post several viruses, including the Melissa virus, to alt.sex, belongs to Scott Steinmetz, a civil engineer in Lynnwood, Washington. Steinmetz said the company where he works was infected with the...
[March 31, 1999, 12:22]
Melissa spawns more offspring
News However, Computer Associates Inc.says the viruses should be easy to kill because anti-virus software updated to fend off Melissa also catches its variants. The latest Melissa offspring to crop up is nicknamed Syndicate, which has surfaced on...
[April 1, 1999, 10:24]
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]
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]
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 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-X disguised as Mac doc
News Computer virus experts say a new variant of the Melissa virus is spreading, this time in the guise of a Macintosh-formatted Microsoft Office document. The virus, dubbed alternatively Melissa-X and Melissa 2001, can be spread on either a PC or a...
[January 19, 2001, 7:33]
Melissa mutates: Virus variants detected
News One incarnation of the virus spreading around the Internet does not contain the "Important Message From" subject line that has identified Melissa. What's more, computer security experts warn that the Melissa clones could easily be created to carry...
[March 30, 1999, 11:27]
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]
Melissa stalks the City
News Robert Turner from the IT department of Travers Smith Braithwaite said of the virus: "We have five or six viruses related to Melissa going around. Take me to the Melissa Virus News Special. It is now a question of finding them and disinfecting the...
[March 29, 1999, 16:49]
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]
Melissa manhunt creates precedent
News A controversial Microsoft document identification technology -- the Global Unique Identifier, or GUID -- also appears to have played at least a minor role in the Melissa manhunt. Take me to the Melissa Virus special.
[April 7, 1999, 9:01]
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]
A Year Ago: Spawn of Melissa discovered
News Remember Melissa? Two new mutations of the world's most infamous virus, Melissa, have been placed on the "watch list" by Avert (Antivirus Emergency Response Team) at Network Associates. Melissa U and Melissa V are the unholy offspring of the...
[October 15, 2000, 7:01]
'Melissa' virus infections escalate
News A signature file included in the virus dubbed the nasty code as "Melissa" and identified the author by the handle "Kwyjibo. Outside of the actions taken to replicate itself, the only other modification made by "Melissa" occur when the current hour...
[March 28, 1999, 19:01]
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]
Text of FBI 'Melissa' warning
News National Infrastructure Protection Centre (NIPC) was notified on March 26, 1999, of the proliferation of a computer virus known as the "Melissa Macro Virus" (MMV). Corrective measures have been developed to guard against infection by the "Melissa...
[March 29, 1999, 8:59]
