计算机专业英语教学资料-Email Viruses.docVIP

Email Viruses The latest thing in the world of computer viruses is the Email virus, and the Melissa virus in March 1999 was spectacular. Melissa spread in Microsoft Word documents sent via Email, and it worked like this. Someone created the virus as a Word document uploaded to an Internet newsgroup. Anyone who downloaded the document and opened it would trigger the virus. The virus would then send the document (and therefore itself)in an Email message to the first 50 people in the person’s address book. The Email message contained a friendly note that included the person’s name, so the r