Listers,
'Melissa' virus swamps corporate e-mail
Virus spreads like wildfire, victimizing Microsoft, Intel, many others.
UPDATED 6:42 PM PT A number of Microsoft Corp. Outlook/Exchange 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.
The program is somewhat devious in that it sends itself from the email
addresses of people who are likely to be familiar contacts, arriving as email
with the subject line "Important message from..." followed by the sender's
name. The body says "Here is that document you asked for ... don't show anyone
else ;-)." The email includes an attached Word file "list.doc," which includes
the porn sites' addresses.
The virus, W97M_Melissa, uses a combination of Microsoft Word macros and
Microsoft Outlook to send a list of 80 pornographic Web sites. It works with
either Word 97 or Word 2000, according to antivirus companies TrendMicro,
McAfee, and Network Associates
Swear to God, it wasn't me this time!!!
Bob
Robert L. Palmer
Dept. of AMES, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu
rpalmer@cts.com
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