Re: Melissa Macro Virus

[brett () LARIAT ORG (Brett Glass)]

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.