Part one of term paper
On Friday March 26, 1999 an e-mail virus named "Melissa" slipped into systems via e-mail and forcing computers to fire off dozens of infected messages to friends and colleagues. Once opened, the virus immediately reads the user's e-mail address book and sends an infected message to the first 50 entries. Although the virus apparently causes ...

Part two of term paper
... with a winking smiley face formed by the punctuation marks ;-) that you don't open it and to delete it right away. A copy cat virus named, "Papa,'' appeared Monday afternoon. It attaches a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet document which, when opened, sends out 60 e-mails, however Papa has bugs that sometimes prevent it from working. The number of computers infected by this virus is amazing. Out of about 150 Fortune 1000 companies and other major organizations that called Network Associates Inc. ab ...