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The powerful file interpreter scripts included in Microsoft Office gave to the virus creators an opportunity to be armed with the characteristics of worms. An example of this was Melissa worm, a Word macro virus with the characteristics of a worm, which infected documents created with the 97 and 2000 versions of Word. This worm [...]

In this article we will examine how the growth of Windows and Visual Basic affected the evolution of computer viruses, since along with the development of those two technologies we had the appearance of global virus epidemics, like the virus Melissa in 1999.
While Windows were evolving as an application designed to facilitate the management of [...]