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RE: 26 March 1999: Happy Birthday. Melissa
From: "William Lefkovics" <william () emailonastick com>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:19:55 -0800
He should be honoured for helping expose weaknesses in a certain appliction/os combination. -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Fergie Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:56 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: [funsec] 26 March 1999: Happy Birthday. Melissa Via Wikipedia. [snip] First found on March 26, 1999, Melissa shut down Internet mail systems that got clogged with infected e-mails propagating from the worm. Melissa was first distributed in the Usenet discussion group alt.sex. The virus was inside a file called "List.DOC," which contained passwords that allow access into 80 pornographic websites. The worm's original form was sent via e-mail to many people. Melissa was written by David L. Smith in Aberdeen Township, New Jersey, and named after a lap dancer he encountered in Florida. The creator of the virus called himself Kwyjibo, but was shown to be identical to macrovirus writers VicodinES and Alt-F11 who had several Word-files with the same characteristic Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), a serial number that was earlier generated with the network card MAC address as a component. Smith was sentenced to 20 months in a federal prison and fined $5000. [snip] More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_worm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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