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ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". [1]
Never been the type to Let someone see right through, ooh [Chorus] Baby, won't you take it back?
Twenty years on, the ILOVEYOU virus remains one of the farthest reaching ever. Tens of millions of computers around the world were affected. The fight to contain the malware and track down its...
ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as Love Bug or Love Letter, was a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000 local time in the Philippines when it started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs".
On May 4, 2000, users of Windows computers began receiving an email with a malicious attachment. Within just ten days, some fifty million infections were reported, and it has been estimated that as...
ILOVEYOU was not the first malware to exploit a hole in Microsoft’s e-mail client, but it certainly initiated one of the most serious virus outbreaks at the beginning of the new millennium. Let’s look back at its history and talk about how it changed our perception of computer system security.
In this article, we will look at the origins of the ILOVEYOU virus, one of the most dangerous threats ever, and offer tips on how to avoid a repeat outbreak.
Here is the original source code for the loveletter virus, a historical macro virus released into the wild on 5 May 2000. When working with all malware (old or new), exercise caution before running any potentially malicious code.
The ILOVEYOU virus, also known as the Love Letter virus or Love Bug, was a computer worm that spread through email and file-sharing services on May 5, 2000. It caused an estimated $10 billion worth of damages all over the world, infecting over 50 million computers and causing significant disruption to businesses, governments, and individuals.
20 years ago, the ILOVEYOU virus attacked PC users worldwide. Here’s Steven Sinofsky, who led Microsoft’s Office team, on how the company fought back—and what it learned in the process.