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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 ]
May: The ILOVEYOU worm, also known as VBS/Loveletter and Love Bug worm, is a computer worm written in VBScript. It infected millions of computers worldwide within a few hours of its release. It is considered to be one of the most damaging worms ever. It originated in the Philippines; made by an AMA Computer College student Onel de Guzman for ...
The worm was most notable for performing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on www.sco.com, which belonged to The SCO Group. February 16: The Netsky worm is discovered. The worm spreads by email and by copying itself to folders on the local hard drive as well as on mapped network drives if available. Many variants of the Netsky worm ...
Adams founded Infrastructure Defense, aka iDefense, in 1998. In a 2000 congressional oversight hearing on the ILOVEYOU virus and its impact on the U.S. financial services industry, [13] Adams described his company: "iDefense provides intelligence-driven products, daily reports, consulting, and certification that allow clients to mitigate or avoid computer network, Internet and information ...
In 2000, McAfee/Network Associates was the leading authority in educating and protecting people against the Love Bug or ILOVEYOU virus, one of the most destructive computer viruses in history. [15] At the end of 2000, CEO Bill Larson, President Peter Watkins, and CFO Prabhat Goyal all resigned after the company sustained losses. [16]
It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs". The outbreak was estimated to have caused US$5.5–8.7 billion in damages worldwide, and estimated to cost the US$15 billion to remove the worm. The worm originated from the Philippines. [7]
“He smirked a lot, he giggled, and, you know, was almost proud of what he did,” Haltom City Police Sergeant Rick Alexander told FOX 4 News. “He claims he’s just a thief.
As chief scientist for ICSA.net, Tippett was one of a handful of experts to identify and address [8] the ILOVEYOU virus that broke in May 2000 [9] and provided key information to the Department of Justice about David Smith, the writer of the Melissa virus. [10] He was featured and on the cover of the August 2000 issue of Time Digital magazine. [11]