Melissa Virus Registry Tweak

Basically the virus does a couple things to your registry:
It turns of your macro virus protection on both Word 97 and 2000
I sets that little "... by Kwyjibo" entry in your office settings once it
has mail bombed your address lists.

My tweak switches on your macro virus protection for both Word 97 and 2000,
and places the "... by Kwyjibo" entry in the correct place to stop the virus
from mail bombing.

I.E. it checks for the entry and only mail bombs if it isn't there.

This should assist you in the cleanup, it did me.

Further things that may help:

Replace your users normal.dot with a known clean copy (a bit extreme this!)
Enforce email virus filtering with one of the better exchange virus
protectors Enforce spam filtering to search for the subject line "Important Message
- From " using one the many available spam filters.

Set the normal.dot to read only if you know its clean.

A point to remember:

This strain of Melissa does not do any actually damage beyond shutting down
your mail servers with heavy traffic. Its payload is only a silly message.
There is almost certainly other nastier strains of this virus around. The
reg tweak will stop the mail bombing but it WILL NOT stop you being infected
or passing it on. Be vigilant.

Attachments:
1 x Zip file containing :
	1 x .reg file with registry tweaks
	1 x .rtf file containing commented source code.

I hope this helps

Regards
James D. Stallard
Leafgrove Limited
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