This story was written by CNET's Elinor Mills. A decade ago there was no Facebook, no iPhone, and no Conficker. There was dial-up and AOL and a nasty virus called Melissa that ended up being the ...

Virus writers seem emboldened by technology and enjoy the thrill of watching the damage they reap Prosecutor Christopher Christie David Smith, 34, developed the Melissa virus three years ago. It was ...

Companies have been left defenceless against a new strain of the Melissa virus, known as Melissa.W ... from Microsoft changing the internal file structure of Mac documents. He said that without ...

And Melissa became an overnight sensation, an Internet starlet and pioneer. Melissa brought the underground virus scene to the mainstream. She brashly took any old Word file and forwarded it to 50 ...

Two days after his federal sentencing, the admitted creator of the "Melissa Virus" that snarled e-mail worldwide received a 20-month prison sentence from a state court Friday. David L. Smith also ...