Melissa Virus

Protect your computer from Virus Melissa

Internet has increased the vulnerability of our computer against malicious external programs like virus and spyware. Virus Melissa is an extremely communicable program which gets dispersed through Word documents especially Word 97, and Word 2000. It replicates very fast and deletes your important files and data. It has the power to spread to other users by using the address book of your Outlook.

Virus Melissa is an extremely communicable security threat that disperses through Word documents especially Word 97, and Word 2000. It replicates very quickly and deletes your important files and data. It can also spread to other users by using the address book of your Outlook.

Melissa gets proliferated when an attached file is opened from the e-mail. It deceives you with its fake games. A game originates with an accurate time management. The virus reads your system timing and when it gets minutes and dates getting concurrent, it displays some tricky lines like:
“Twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game’s over. I’m outta here”.

Hence, the user is carried away with the flow and the virus starts replicating. It replicates so spontaneously that, if not checked for an hour, it will start deleting your important files and folders. Initially you can observe your system running slow, programs getting chocked but later on the results gets even worse. Your PC may meet absolute crash which may exterminate important information.

Virus Melissa is often termed as macro virus, because it is constructed with coding of Macro language. Hence, all those programs written on Macro language serve as the platform for the virus.

After the entry and replication the next thing that it does is, to use the Outlook’s address book to send 50 more messages to different users. The recipient will get subject as “Important Message From {user name}”. The body of the e-mail will contain “Here is that document you asked for . . . don’t show anyone else ”.

It is very important to run proper scan before you download any e-mail attachment to avoid spread of virus Melissa and other such security threats.

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