The author of Melissa posted the virus to a newsgroup called "alt.sex ... from which it was sent but also the IP address of the computer from which it was sent. That IP was linked to an AOL ...

Melissa the Dominatrix, a variety of computer virus known as a macro bug, was designed to make the computers it attacks send massive waves of e-mail messages to addresses it found stored in the ...

He was tracked down electronically by police and computer technicians and arrested in April 1999, a week after Melissa appeared. Smith pleaded guilty to the charge, and on Wednesday described the ...

Think about it, one infected computer had the potential to infect ... Whalley's analysis for Virus Bulletin's May 1999 edition: Melissa: The Little Virus That Could... If something is not ...

Less than a week after the Melissa virus oubreak began, 30-year-old David L Smith was ... inconveniencing millions of computer users the world over – it’s important that Smith has been dealt with in ...

The Computer Emergency Response Team ... But the case of Mr. Smith and his Melissa virus should prove to others that it’s a fool’s game.” Fifteen years later and the fool’s game continues ...

We started this series remembering the Brain computer virus and the Morris worm, and this time we will stop at two well-remembered threats of the 90s — the Michelangelo and Melissa viruses.

According to Lovet, it was not until 1999's Melissa virus that someone realized money could be made off of computer viruses. Melissa propagated via Microsoft Word documents and mailed itself to ...

Yet by clogging e-mail systems and causing some to crash, Melissa was the worst computer virus outbreak ever at the time. Smith, a computer programmer, was arrested on April 1, 1999, at his ...

Click through the photos to read about some of the biggest computer viruses in history, including Conficker, Melissa and ILOVEYOU. Click here for more about the “Here you have virus” from OC ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Newark, New Jersey: The creator of the Melissa computer virus was sentenced today to 20 months in a US prison for causing millions ...

NEWARK, N.J. — The creator of the “Melissa” computer virus was sentenced Wednesday to 20 months in federal prison for causing millions of dollars of damage by disrupting e-mail systems ...