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An example of a macro virus is the Melissa virus which appeared in March 1999. When a user opens a Microsoft Word document containing the Melissa virus, their computer becomes infected. The virus then sends itself by email to the first 50 people in the person's address book. This made the virus replicate at a fast rate. [4]
Microsoft Excel contained a hidden Doom-like mini-game called "The Hall of Tortured Souls", a series of rooms featuring the names and faces of the developers. [19] The mini-game generated some controversy when chain emails made spurious claims and conspiracy theories accusing Microsoft—particularly Bill Gates —of hiding Satanic symbolism ...
The Melissa virus is a mass-mailing macro virus released on or around March 26, 1999. It targets Microsoft Word and Outlook-based systems and created considerable network traffic. The virus infects computers via email; the email is titled "Important Message From," followed by the current username. Upon clicking the message, the body reads ...
A compromised (hacked) account means someone else accessed your account by obtaining your password. Spoofed email occurs when the "From" field of a message is altered to show your address, which doesn't necessarily mean someone else accessed your account.
Examples of e-mails with "Storm Worm" in the attachment. The Storm Worm (dubbed so by the Finnish company F-Secure) is a phishing backdoor [1] [2] Trojan horse that affects computers using Microsoft operating systems, [3] [4] [5] discovered on January 17, 2007. [3]
A 2001 Hotmail inbox layout embedded in Microsoft Outlook The old MSN Hotmail inbox from 2007. Hotmail was sold to Microsoft in December 1997 for a reported $400 million (~$705 million in 2023), and it joined the MSN group of services. [17] The sale had been preceded by a major incident in 1997 where all email was lost for 25% of mailboxes. [18]
The first IBM PC virus in the wild was a boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, created in 1986 by the Farooq Alvi brothers in Pakistan. [14] Malware distributors would trick the user into booting or running from an infected device or medium. For example, a virus could make an infected computer add autorunnable code to any USB stick plugged into it.