Description
Melissa is a macro virus from 1999 that spread through Word documents attached to email that appeared to come from the victim's contacts. It infected documents on new machines and mailed itself to addresses from the victim's Outlook contact list, and its explosive growth made it a landmark case in email borne malware.
Stats
- First seen
- March 2022
- Last seen
- October 2026
Alert name variants
| Alert Name |
|---|
| Document-Office.Trojan.Melissa |
| Document-Word.Trojan.Melissa |
| Document-Word.Virus.Melissa |
| Document-Word.Worm.Melissa |
| Script-WScript.Trojan.Melissa |
| Script-WScript.Virus.Melissa |
| W97M.Melissa.AO@mm |
| W97M.Melissa.BP@mm |
| W97M.Melissa.Q |