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A rogues gallery of rumbled hackers

David Smith wrote the mass-mailing macro virus known as Melissa. The virus was first discovered in March 1999 and can spread on Microsoft Word 97 and Word 2000 and also Microsoft Excel 97, 2000 and 2003. It can mass-mail itself from Microsoft Outlook 97 or Outlook 98. If a document containing the virus is downloaded and opened,the macro in the document runs and attempts to mass mail itself.

648 days ago
Anon

Julian Assange --- a hacker??! Why not put Rupert Murdoch in there as well?

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