Control Data Slams the Door on "Melissa".ARDEN HILLS, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999--Control Data Systems, Inc. today released an update that prevents users of its messaging software from infection by the Melissa virus A Word macro virus that was unleashed in the spring of 1999. It sent an e-mail message with a list of pornographic Web sites to the first 50 names in the user's Microsoft Outlook address book. . The solution lets Control Data customers immediately remove infected messages from the outgoing message queue A storage space in memory or on disk that holds incoming transmissions until the computer can process them. See messaging middleware. , and prevents infected messages from entering the network. Melissa crashes corporate e-mail servers See mail server. by overloading them with unintended messages. Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). estimates that over 100,000 computers were infected in the last three days. Control Data's analysts began working on a solution when rumors of the virus surfaced on Friday. Its messaging software is uniquely suited to fast deployment of updates to detect viruses such as Melissa. An update was ready on Monday for all of Control Data's messaging software, which links millions of users in organizations around the world. One of Control Data's customers, a major multinational bank, experienced only minimal interruptions before installing the patch. A bank manager later thanked Control Data for its fast response. "This was an excellent and rapid response from Control Data to my request for a fix...to catch the virus." Control Data enterprise messaging solutions include Mail.Hub, which connects disparate messaging systems Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent ; eMail Sentinel, an E-mail virus A virus that comes within an attached file in an e-mail message. When that file is opened, the virus does its damage. Macro viruses can come in Microsoft Word documents that are sent as e-mail attachments. protection and security server; and IntraStore, an Internet messaging server. Control Data Systems, Inc., is a global information technology company that delivers enterprise Internet and systems integration solutions, and E-Commerce outsourcing services. For more information, call 1-888-742-5864 (U.S. and Canada) or 1-651-415-2999 (worldwide). Visit our Web site at http://www.cdc.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: The product name Mail.Hub referred to in this news release, contains an asterisk between Mail and Hub. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. |
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