"Hey you cheat me with your love, and now my whole work got stuck" - It seems the little bit comedy that a virus got its name ILOVEYOU. It was the top dangerous virus ever.
ILOVEYOU virus is also referred as Love Bug and Love letter. It was a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It was spread through Email to the personal computer. An attached file named "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs" with the subject of the mail as "I LOVE YOU" was spread using the email service provided during that time. The windows operating system which was one of the famous during that time was used to hide the file extension .vbs as it is a system file at that time. Also, leading unwitting users to think it was a normal text file. Opening the attachment activated the Visual Basic script.
The worm did damage on the local machine, overwriting random types of files (including Office files, image files, and audio files; however after overwriting MP3 files the virus would hide the file), and sent a copy of itself to all addresses in the Windows Address Book used by Microsoft Outlook. In contrast, the Melissa virus only sent copies to the first 500 contacts. But this made it spread much faster than any other previous email worm.
Download the virus source code https://goo.gl/5aGMTs
The virus was created by two Filipino programmers, Reonel Ramones and Onel de Guzman. What it did was use social engineering to get people to click on the attachment; in this case, a love confession.
The virus has made a big revolution at that time by effecting millions of Windows 98 computers and brought big loss to the government department.
The virus has made a big revolution at that time by effecting millions of Windows 98 computers and brought big loss to the government department.
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