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Re: Melissa Macro Virus
From: brett () LARIAT ORG (Brett Glass)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:18:23 -0700
No. This key would only prevent the 50-message burst of e-mail. However, the user's NORMAL.DOT template would still be infected. So would every document he or she opened or created. And the moment one of those documents hit a machine without the key that had Outlook running.... Blammo! Another salvo of messages. --Brett At 12:25 PM 3/27/99 +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Nate Lawson wrote:2. See if machine is already infected Check HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\Melissa? for the string "... by Kwyjibo"Surely just adding this key would provide effective safety? (Until modified versions hit the streets, anyway - ain't "open source" great :) Matthew.
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