CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Melissa Common name Melissa Technical name W97M.Melissa.A Type Macro virus Author(s) David L. Smith Operating system(s) affected Windows 95 , Windows 98 , Windows Me , Windows NT , Windows 2000 , Windows XP [1] The Melissa virus was a mass-mailing macro virus . As it was not a standalone program, it is not a worm . 1 David L. Smith 2 See also 3 References 4 External links David L. Smith [ edit ] Around March 26, 1999 Melissa was put in the wild by David L. Smith of Aberdeen Township, New Jersey . [2] (The virus itself was credited to Kwyjibo , who was shown to be macrovirus writers VicodinES and ALT-F11 by comparing MS Word documents with the same globally unique identifier —this method was also used to trace the virus back to Smith.) On December 10, 1999...