Beckham said her company had received some calls, but most of their clients are large businesses. Because Melissa reads addresses and sends to everyone listed, server lines are tied up and e-mail that usually takes a couple minutes to send may take a couple of hours instead. You have that many businesses opening that many documents at the same time. You can still lose performance. For that reason, ComputerVision is concerned about their bigger network customers.
Time is money.
Between 50 percent and 70 percent of ComputerVision's customers could be affected by this virus, Beckham estimated. One way to avoid the mess Melissa creates is to not open the message to begin with. If a person does open the e-mail, he or she should definitely not download the attachment. The site explains viruses cannot exist in an e-mail text message. Viruses are generally operating-system specific.