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By Sally Watson
Published: 22 November 1999 14:07 GMT
A fresh Melissa variant is sweeping across Europe and the US, infecting computers with a virus set to go off on Christmas day.
Like the original virus, the Melissa.w variant or 'Prilissa' as it has been dubbed, automatically sends itself to everyone on an infected computer's address list.
According to Alex Shipp, virus technologist at ISP Star Internet, if a user who has received the email runs Microsoft Word 97 on the 25 December, Prilissa will overwrite the autoexec.bat file and re-format the C drive.
"We [Star Internet] saw three copies on Friday and two came from well-known high-street banks," said Shipp.
The virus started mainly in the UK and Europe but has now spread into the US. Shipp said he hoped it was being contained as he hadn't seen any new copies on Monday.
"The anti-virus companies know how to detect it, you just have to make sure your software is up-to-date," he said.
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