Users Laud Email Virus as Outlook "Improvement"

Users of Microsoft Outlook are heaping praise on a recent virus named Melissa. They claim it fixes bugs in the program that makes it difficult to distribute attachments to multiple addressees.

"I see it as a blessing," says Outlook user Valerie Template. "No one in my department can figure out how to use the thing, and Microsoft 'support' is less than useless."

Template claims that with Melissa, "I can prepare a distribution list and it will email an attachment automatically. It's simple, fast, and doesn't crash - obviously not a Microsoft product."

Melissa is a macro virus, which means it can make programs like Office and Word manipulate and send documents without the user's permission. Melissa grabs up to 50 email addresses from Outlook's address book, and sends the current Word document as an attachment. It even personalizes the subject line with the names found in the address book.

"I wish I could find viruses for other Microsoft products," Template says, sighing. "Then maybe they'll actually be useable."