Melissa was the principal mass-mailing large scale infection for the new time of messaging which turned into the letting the cat out of the bag across the world on Walk 26, 1999. The assessed harm accounted to 300 to 600 million bucks after which FBI sent off the biggest web manhunt ever to get the creator of Melissa - David L. Smith which obviously they did and after the capture, he was condemned 20 months in government jail and was requested to pay a fine of $5000 for releasing the quickest infection of now is the right time.
The infection was conveyed as an email connection and when the connection "list.doc" is clicked upon, the infection looks for the Microsoft Viewpoint address book to email itself to the initial 50 names on the rundown with a message "Here is that record you requested… don't show any other person.
When enacted, the infection would recreate and afterward sends itself out to the initial 50 individuals in the location book of the beneficiary.
Made by David Smith in 1999.
Made a wreck for government and public area organizations.
Made some email suppliers shut down email administrations until the infection was contained.