Melissa

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The Melissa virus was a mass-mailing macro virus released by David L. Smith of Aberdeen Township, New Jersey on March 26, 1999. Melissa spread through infected Microsoft Word documents. When a recipient opened one, the virus used Microsoft Outlook to send copies to the first 50 entries in the user's address book.

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