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Melissa: the macro virus that took out a thousand servers

29 March 1999

On Friday, a Word macro virus called Melissa propagated itself by mail to anyone in the recipient's Outlook address book. By Monday, multiple Fortune 500 mail servers were down. A note on the immediate aftermath and what Melissa changes about the threat model.

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