Melissa Virus
- 1. Melissa Virus By: Joshua Adams
- 2. Facts The Virus’s Name is Melissa It received it’s name from a lap dancer the creator, David L. Smith, or Kwyjibo met in Florida. There were multiple forms of the virus, all of which had a list.doc file that contained passwords to 80 pornographic sites and mass mails itself, other versions delete critical files and strips them of their hidden, read only, and archive attributes, deletes excel documents or deletes the origional, makes backups and tells the user to send $100 dollars to an offshore account to get them back, tells the user "Hint: Get Norton 2000 not McAfee 4.02“, and inserting the string “Worm, let’s we enjoy” at 10 am on the 10 th day of each month.
- 3. More Facts Could not find how long Melissa took to crack Microsoft released a Microsoft Word patch to keep computers safe from the Melissa Virus It infected countless thousands of PCs The Virus was spread by e-mail You can prevent getting this virus by not opening the list.doc file, password protecting the normal.doc file, and not enabling macros in a document.
- 4. Feelings about the virus The virus caused economic chaos, and cost about eighty million dollars in damages. The virus writer thought that he was a genious, as the term Kwyjibo came from an episode of the Simpsons where Bart creates a new word whilst playing scrabble to win the game. He was trying to send porno site passwords to people.
- 5. Feelings continued If you get the virus on your computer, you should run a good virus scanner, and if you get the e-mail with list.doc, you should simply delete the e-mail, and tell the person who sent you the e-mail that they may be infected with the Melissa virus.
- 6. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_worm) http://www.jrwhipple.com/virus_melissa.html http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/j-037.shtml http://www.pc-history.org/pc-virus.htm