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Memories of the Melissa virus

31 pointsby asymptoticabout 14 years ago

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btillyabout 14 years ago
My fondest memory of the Melissa virus was coming home and my wife asking me why an email looked all messed up. I told her that that was why I run Linux. She looked <i>really</i> confused, and said she wanted to see the actual email since it was from a friend. I explained that she was staring at the source code to a virus, and told her what would have happened had we been using Windows.