To: Edwarda who wrote (4537 ) 3/27/1999 9:02:00 PM From: AlienTech Read Replies (4) | Respond to
Ah Melissa is much badder than I thought.. Guess we shoudnt talk on such subjects on this thread. One thing the press reports don't mention quite correctly, is that the virus emails itself out again to the first 50 ADDRESSES in a newly-infected system's address book, sorted alphabetically. Unfortunately, this includes mailing lists - group addresses - like, for example "All Co-workers" and so forth. So, based on this, the number of actual emails to go out from each new infection is likely to be much greater than 50 per. It is some consolation, perhaps, that only messages received on systems where both Outlook and Word97/2000 are running are capable of this email-based self replication. I still use elm under UNIX for most of my email, or AOL email for a change now and then. Hope there are many others like me.
