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A week after Melissa took down major mail servers, I have spent some time talking to admins who lived through it. The fixes that stuck are smaller than the headlines, and the lessons are mostly about pre-existing assumptions.
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.