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	Melissa worm author sentenced to 20 months
		The Melissa worm was the first ever successful mass-mailing worm and has provided the blueprint for many other mass mailers including The Love Bug and Anna Kournikova.
		However, with Smith first confessing to writing and distributing the worm in 1999, Sophos is calling for swifter action by the courts to increase the deterrent to future virus writers.
		Melissa, named after a Florida stripper admired by David L Smith, congested the email systems of thousands of companies worldwide causing many to panic and shut down their internet connection to the outside world.
	www.sophos.com /pressoffice/pressrel/uk/20020501smith.html (333 words)

	Melissa virus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Melissa is not a new type of worm -- it is just the first more or less successful VBA worm (Sharefun was the first, Happy99.exe is another, but not VBA-based).
		In an case Melissa can help companies to put procedures in place that let them respond to virus threats quickly, as well as educate their users on to be alert to potential viruses.
		Melissa was a good test for heuristic macro virus detection capabilities of existing AV software and proved again that no amount of virus protection will make a network 100% secure.
	www.softpanorama.org /Antivirus/AV_Secrets/Vgallery/melissa.shtml (3215 words)

	F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Melissa.W
		Melissa.W is a version of one of the most widespread viruses in history, Melissa.A. The original Melissa spread around the world as an e-mail chain letter in March 1999.
		E-mail worms such as Melissa spread effectively, as users are likely to open a e-mails coming from someone they know.
		Melissa will not work under Word 95 and will not spread further under Outlook Express.
	www.f-secure.com /v-descs/melissaw.shtml (354 words)

	Melissa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In Greek mythology, Melissa ("bee") was a nymph, daughter of King Melisseus.
		Melissa was also used as a title for priestesses of Demeter and Artemis.
		"Melissa" was also a song by the Allman Brothers Band, featured on their album Eat a Peach.
	www.theezine.net /m/melissa.html (88 words)

	CERT®/CC Frequently Asked Questions About the Melissa Virus
		Melissa was different from other macro viruses because of the speed at which it spread.
		Melissa requires user interaction to propagate, therefore we do not consider it a worm.
		To be affected by Melissa and other, similar macro viruses, you must open the attachment and permit macros to run.
	www.cert.org /tech_tips/Melissa_FAQ.html (1185 words)

	MelissaVirus.com: They very latest Melissa Virus information
		Melissa, the e-mail virus that spread like wildfire, put the spotlight on a team of Defense Department-funded cybersleuths based in Pittsburgh and created 10 years ago in the wake of another landmark computer assault.
		With the sudden emergence of the Melissa Macro Virus, corporations around the country are scrambling to contain and purge the virus from their systems.
		Melissa arrest: A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with originating the e-mail virus known as Melissa, the state attorney general's office announced today.
	www.melissavirus.com (2717 words)

	Melissa worm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Melissa worm, also known as "Mailissa", "Simpsons", "Kwyjibo", or "Kwejeebo", is a computer worm that also functions as a macro virus, hence making it a "multipartite virus".
		Melissa was written by David L. Smith in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey, and named after a lap dancer he encountered in Florida.
		The worm's activation routine inserts quotes from the animated television programme "The Simpsons" into other documents if the minutes of the hour of the computer's clock match the day of the month (I.E. 7:09 on the 9th day of the said month).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Melissa-worm.htm (1047 words)

	An Environment for Controlled Worm Replication and Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A worm is an independent program which, when run on a computer, will attempt to infect other computer systems […] In this case the host program is the operating system of the computer, and the infected code is a stand-alone process or thread of execution running under the operating system.
		Melissa’s worm component, as readers will recall, worked by sending the currently active document to the first 50 people in each and every Outlook address book – however, this payload was only performed once.
		Unlike Melissa, ExplorerZip was ‘binary’ malware (that is to say, it was not written in a macro language – in fact, it was written in Delphi).
	www.megasecurity.org /Info/wormanalysis.htm (3722 words)

	Melissa worm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Melissa worm was a computer worm that attacked the Microsoft e-mail client (MUA) Outlook and the word processor Microsoft Word and caused large troubles in the Internet mail systems starting March 26, 1999.
		Melissa was written by David L. Smith[?] in Eatontown[?], New Jersey, and named after a lap-dancer[?] he encountered in Florida.
		The document that was distributed with the worm contained a list of 80 pornographic web sites and was initially posted to a Usenet newsgroup.
	www.city-search.org /me/melissa-worm.html (532 words)

	Computer Worm Definition Information and links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There are also computer worms, worms in market research, and the dragons known as "wyrms", sometimes spelt this way.
		In computer storage media, WORM (for write once, read many) is a data storage technology that allows information to be written to a disc a single time and prevents the drive from erasing the data.
		A worm is a self-replicating virus that does not alter files but resides in active memory and duplicates itself.
	www.seespyware.com /computer-worm-definition.html (820 words)

	News
		This worm is functionally identical to the original W97M.Melissa.A worm that was discovered in 1999.
		The worm utilizes a known Microsoft Outlook Express security hole so that a viral file is created on the system without having to run any attachment.
		The worm propagates automatically on Windows 9x and Windows NT platforms through email and has a destructive payload that triggers in the year 2000.
	www.esi-a.com /news.htm (1056 words)

	Virus, Worms & Trojans
		Melissa Virus - Macintosh users of Microsoft Office 2001 now have a beta of Outlook available (formerly just Outlook Express).
		Outlook is enabling the Melissa virus to spread among Mac users.
		While Linux is not subject to the fast spreading e-mail virus problems Windows systems have, Linux computers connected to DSL and cable modems are vulnerable to break-in, worms and trojans if their patch levels are not kept up-to-date.
	www.aaxnet.com /info/viruspg.html (422 words)

	From Melissa to Zotob: 10 Years of Windows Worms
		Melissa, created by a New Jersey hacker who would go to jail for the attack, was released on a Usenet discussion group inside a Microsoft Word file.
		The fast-spreading worms crippled network infrastructure globally and the cleanup and recovery were estimated to be tens of billions of dollars.
		The worm spread by exploiting a buffer overflow in the DCOM RPC service on Windows 2000 and Windows XP and also launched a SYN flood attack against port 80 of Microsoft's windowsupdate.com site that is used to distribute security patches.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,1895,1851792,00.asp (1542 words)

	Mentor's Corner: How one IS white knight slayed a deadly worm (InfoWorld)
		The worm, which targeted Microsoft Exchange users, hid its sting by retaining the subject lines in the e-mail messages it used as transport.
		Because the worm was not a virus, the virus signature files on the desktop could not keep it out, according to Delaney.
		Although Delaney chased the worm out of O'Keefe & Co.'s environment quickly, he says it was a solid three working days before he was confident the company was out of the hot seat.
	www.infoworld.com /cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/99/28/c04-28.40.htm (618 words)

	F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: BadAss
		The worm file is 24576 bytes long Windows EXE application written in Visual Basic.
		It seems to be based on Melissa worm source code - functions and sequence of commands in the BadAss code are very close to those in Melissa source code.
		When the worm file is run from infected message attachment, the worm gets control and starts its main routine.
	www.f-secure.com /v-descs/badass.shtml (216 words)

	FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In addition to replication, a worm may be designed to do any number of things, such as delete files on a host system, or send documents via email.
		The name 'worm' was taken from a 1970s science fiction novel by John Brunner entitled The Shockwave Rider; researchers writing an early paper on experiments in distributed computing noted the similarities between their software and the program described by Brunner, and adopted that name.
		The first worm to attract wide attention, known as the Morris Worm, was written by Robert Tappan Morris, Jr.
	www.virusbusterskauai.com /faq.htm (1721 words)

	ITinfo: How The Worm.ExploreZip Virus Works
		The easiest way to prevent being affected by the virus (and most common viruses) is to not open email file attachments that don't originate from trusted sources and aren't expected.
		And both Melissa and Worm.ExploreZip attempt to camouflage themselves within email messages transmitted from our acquaintances - people who are already known to the recipient.
		While Melissa clogged email systems by promulgating itself up to 50 times be execution, Worm.ExploreZip transmits itself by bouncing back incoming email messages and then actually does damage by deleting Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint document files.
	itrain.org /itinfo/1999/it990610.html (251 words)

	Wired News: Now That Was a Nasty Worm
		With Melissa, the worm was sent only to the first 50 addresses in the address book.
		Antipass says that the worm may have passed through corporate firewalls because most are not set up to reject attachments with a.txt.vbs extension.
		He also notes that the worm seems to be deleting JPEG graphic files and replacing them with copies of the.vbs virus file.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,36119,00.html (1143 words)

	Virus Alert - Melissa Word worm macro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		You may or may not have heard about the latest in email viruses called "Melissa".
		Melissa is a Word 97 Class Module Macro virus that can also be upconverted to a Word 2000 Macro Virus.
		A new worm spreading across the Net could make the Melissa virus look benign.
	www.cyberzone-inc.com /alerts/archive/melissa.shtml (501 words)

	Symantec - Malaysia Press Release
		The W97M.Melissa.U (Gen1) worm is a modified version of another worm that was discovered last week named W97M.Melissa.U. Both worms are variants of the infamous W97M.Melissa.A worm that infected PC users worldwide in late March 1999.
		Both Melissa variants attempt to delete some system files, insert text into documents and e-mail the infected file to the first four entries in the users Microsoft Outlook address book.
		"The Melissa virus and its variants have the ability to self-replicate through e-mail which means that the virus can spread very quickly, especially within corporations utilizing large address lists.
	www.symantec.com /region/reg_ap/press/my_991018.html (694 words)

	VBS/Freelink Trojan Horse / Worm- InfiniSource, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The worm uses Outlook application to mass-mail itself to each recipient in each address book.
		The mass-mail portion is similar to the infamous Melissa virus.
		As address books typically contain group addresses, the end result of executing the VBS/Freelink worm inside an organization is that the first infected user sends the message to everybody in the organization.
	www.infinisource.com /features/freelink.html (540 words)

	CERT Advisory CA-1999-04 Melissa Macro Virus
		While the primary transport mechanism of this virus is via email, any way of transferring files can also propagate the virus.
		The Melissa macro virus propagates in the form of an email message containing an infected Word document as an attachment.
		We have received a number of reports from people confusing the Happy99.exe Trojan Horse with the Melissa virus.
	www.cert.org /advisories/CA-1999-04.html (1550 words)

	MSN Tech & Gadgets
		Worm.ExploreZip is considered worse than Melissa because the latest worm destroys data on a user's machine.
		Though Melissa triggered a flood of outgoing email that potentially overwhelming email servers, it didn't destroy data.
		He cites three major new viruses since January--Worm.ExploreZip, Melissa, and Happy99--and a fourth virus, CIH or Chernobyl, that has existed for about a year but inflicted real damage this spring, particularly in Asia.
	msn-cnet.com.com /2100-1001_3-227166.html (476 words)

	seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Happy birthday, Melissa
		Melissa was the first really "mainstream" worm to spread over the Internet, exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft software to infect 1 million computers in North America; and, consequently, perhaps the first "star" virus of the modern age.
		To commemorate the anniversary, Wired News' Michelle Delio interviews various security experts to get their views on how far we've come in the years since.
		"Melissa was Paleolithic times by today's standards," said George Smith, a senior fellow with GlobalSecurity.org.
	blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com /buzz/archives/002511.html (388 words)

	New Worm Fails to Make Big Impact - Computerworld
		Antivirus software vendors warned companies about another e-mail virus last week, this one nicknamed the Killer Resume, but it appeared to have done little damage and was reportedly contained.
		The virus, patterned on last year's Melissa worm, went out on May 26.
		Like Melissa and last month's I Love You virus, the Killer Resume worm spread through Microsoft Outlook as an e-mail message.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2000/0,4814,45475,00.html (319 words)

	Word97Macro/Assilem.A
		This virus is a corrupted version of the Word97Macro/Melissa worm.
		Word97Macro/Melissa is widely known to be a worm which is able to spread by forwarding a copy of itself by exploiting the users MS Outlook address book.
		Variants of Word97Macro/Melissa that are unable to use the address book are viruses, but are not actually worms.
	www3.ca.com /securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=2979 (196 words)

	Archived Virus Alerts
		A new mass email worm has cropped up today and is rapidly spreading around the Internet.
		The worm is carried in the form of an E-mail with the subject "Resume - Janet Simmons".
		The worm not only changes its message subject each time it infects, but each copy of the message is different from every other copy.
	www.its.msstate.edu /news/archive-virus.php (1115 words)

	Melissa
		The Melissa outbreak started on Saturday, March 27, 1999.
		Massive e-mail virus outbreak spreads like wildfire-Dubbed the "Melissa" virus, the culprit has hampered -- and in some cases entirely shut down -- e-mail systems for companies the world over.
		For example, Microsoft has put a halt to all outgoing e-mails throughout the company.
	www.iss.net /security_center/advice/Phauna/Worm/E-mail/Melissa (93 words)

	Virus Alert - Papa Excel worm macro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Papa is a Macro Virus that's based on the code of the Melissa worm macro virus.
		Because of its infection method, this is much more a worm than ordinary macro virus.
		The message also has attached workbook - it is current (worm's) worbook, and it is infected.
	www.cyberzone-inc.com /alerts/archive/papa.shtml (254 words)

	Symantec Security Response - W97M.Melissa.W
		Due to the recent decrease in infection activity of this worm the threat severity rating has been lowered from 4 to 2.
		Virus definitions dated prior to January 18, 2001, detect this worm as W97M.Melissa.Variant.
		Although there is nothing unique in the infection routine of this macro virus, it has a payload that uses Microsoft Outlook to send an attachment, which is the infected document that is being opened.
	service1.symantec.com /sarc/sarc.nsf/html/W97M.Melissa.W.html (1015 words)

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