|By K. Thor Jensen May 5, 2011| As email began to become the
preferred method of business communication, it became only
natural for virus makers to start treating it as a disease
vector. One of the first worms to get major attention was the
Melissa virus, created in 1999 by David L. Smith and named after
a stripper he had a crush on. Sent through an email, it was
built on a simple Microsoft Word macro - if you opened the
attached document, it would automatically replicate itself and
re-send to the top 50 names in your address book. Melissa
crashed multiple networks before it was contained, but it was
only the beginning. As more and more people started using email
in their daily life, it's not surprising that virus makers are
targeting kids with their work as well. The 2007 Pikachu worm is
widely regarded to be the first piece of malware that focused on
the pre-teen set. An email containing an image of the electric
mouse Pokemon and some amazing Engrish reading "Between millions
of people around the world I fo