The virus - a Microsoft Word macro dubbed Melissa - replicates in two ways: by copying itself into Word documents via their underlying template, and by sending itself to fifty addresses from each user's Outlook address book.
Anti-virus company Symantec is warning IT users of a virulent new worm seen in the wild with the ability to overwrite files and infect Microsoft Word documents. When opened the worm emails all recipients in a victim's address book, overwrites all...
The virus also deletes Word documents, JPG picture files, Audio Video Interleaved files, Excel spreadsheets and a few other types of files. The variant, MyDoom.F, deletes several different types of files stored on an infected computer and aims to...
The virus - a Microsoft Word macro dubbed Melissa - replicates in two ways: by copying itself into Word documents via their underlying template, and by sending itself to fifty addresses from each user's Outlook address book.
Another problem, which also affected Appkit, meant a user who opened a specially crafted rich text file could allow malicious code to run on their machine. One affected programs that use AppKit to open Microsoft Word documents.
Symantec's advisory stated: "As with other recent [Microsoft] Office vulnerabilities, documents incorporating the exploit code must be opened with a vulnerable copy of Microsoft Word 2000 for it to work.