Melissa Virus

Part I of Essay
On Friday March 26, 1999 an e-mail virus named "Melissa" slipped into systems via e-mail and forcing computers to fire off dozens of infected messages to friends and colleagues. Once opened, the virus immediately reads the user's e-mail address book and sends an infected m ....

Part II of Essay
.... Out of about 150 Fortune 1000 companies and other major organizations that called Network Associates Inc. about Melissa, 80% were infected, said Sal Viveros, the company's group marketing manager for total virus defense. Another customer reported that 60,000 desktops were already affected, and another company said 500,000 e-mail messages were floating around in its system. Although it is hard to find the source of the the e-mail. A man named Richard Smith, president of Phar Lap Software, a firm that makes operating systems and software ....