“Melissa’s successors may be able to penetrate Office 2000 suite
— without users ever launching attachments.”
“In 1987, IBM employees received a Christmas e-mail greeting
that looked up names in recipients’ e-mail directories and used
them as new addressees, choking IBM’s network for several
days.”
“The worldwide reach of the Internet brought similar confusion
to many enterprises, rather than just one corporate network, in
this week’s Melissa incident. Some lessons are never learned.”
“And with the latest features of Microsoft Corp.’s Outlook 98
and with forthcoming features in its Office 2000 application suite,
the saga of mail-bomb mischief will be offering new plot twists
well into the 21st century.”