The creator of Melissa virus is “KWYJIBO”. This virus was originated in Aberdeein, New Jersey, USA. On March 26, 1999 Melissa virus was discovered and the language was use is Visual Basic or ”VB”. For the responsible of this Melissa virus was none other than David L. Smith and also the distributor of this virus. Smith has so many different alias, one of the alias that he use is “Kwyjibo”. Smith admitted that he created the virus and named it Melissa because of the exotic girl he met in Florida, USA. Smith also admitted that he didn't want to cause harm with the computer virus and only to know if it worked.
The Melissa virus is an example of how an easy email
attachment can cause important cost for the damage to a personal computer.
Melissa virus is a macro virus it is an embedded in a Microsoft Office Word and
Excel that process in the spreadsheet
or word-processor document. If your
document is opened the macro virus does not horrible work. In case of the Melissa virus work, it uses your
email program to send a many copy of itself to the 50 first people in your
email address book. Melissa virus is also an easier to passed through the Microsoft Outlook
email user. The Melissa virus can cause major damage in a multi-million dollar
range. This virus it can managed to shut down million of email system infected
all word files even the user doesn’t use Outlook; this virus can get into
easily access to the Word document and send into anyone who received their Word
documents. The Melissa virus can also attack the registry for the 97 and the
changes of the security setting.
This Melissa virus was very important to know this is so essential
and we have to be careful when we open this files trough email. As well as the,
purchasing the quality virus scan software is also highly recommended as such
software is very important for the prevention of the viruses and other attacks
on a computer. Now a day so many anti-virus software packages will automatically
scan an email attachment for the viruses when it is clicked on for the
download.
