What Is Melissa Virus?
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The Melissa virus, also known as the Melissa macro virus, is a computer virus created in 1999 by a computer programmer named David L. Smith. The virus spread through Microsoft Word documents sent as email attachments, and it was the first mass-mailing macro virus. Once it infected a computer, it would send out copies of itself to the first 50 contacts in the Outlook address book. The virus caused significant damage, and Smith was sentenced to 20 months in prison for creating it.