Trivia ILOVEYOU Virus

[Reen-Oath]

ILOVEYOU Virus​

ILOVEYOU Virus is also known as the "love letter virus" and the "love bug worm." Although commonly referred to as a computer virus, ILOVEYOU is actually a worm.

ILOVEYOU Virus is considered one of the most virulent computer virus ever created. It managed to wreck havoc on computer systems all over the world
The outbreak was later estimated to have caused US$5.5–8.7 billion in damages worldwide, and estimated to cost US$10–15 billion to remove the worm. Within ten days, over fifty million infections had been reported, and it is estimated that 10% of Internet-connected computers in the world had been affected.

The virus was created by two Filipino programers, 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 attachment was actually a script that poses as a TXT file, due to Windows at the time hiding the actual extension of the file.

Once clicked, it will send itself to everyone in the user’s mailing list and proceed to overwrite files with itself, making the computer unbootable. The two were never charged, as there were no laws about malware. This led to the enactment of the E-Commerce Law to address the problem.

The ILOVEYOU computer virus first began to appear in May 2000.

source
hongkiat.com
wikipedia.org
techtarget.com

 

[Deleted member 1954679]

nabalitaan ko nga to date, nung mga panahong windows 98 pa ang mga pc...
pinoy pa nga ang nakagawa nyan, bilib talaga ako

salamat sa impormasyon miss

 

[Reen-Oath]

nabalitaan ko nga to date, nung mga panahong windows 98 pa ang mga pc...
pinoy pa nga ang nakagawa nyan, bilib talaga ako

9 years old palang ako ng nasimula yang virus nayan dati
hindi ko alam kung ano yan sa balita akala ko nakapatay sya haha

salamat sa impormasyon miss

welcome sir

 

[Dismal]

Meron palang ganyan. Tinatamaan ka rin naman ngayon. Joke lang.

 

[Reen-Oath]

Meron palang ganyan. Tinatamaan ka rin naman ngayon. Joke lang.

Cr4p ohh niloloko ako joke lang
hala bat ko tinawag di naman sasagot yan

 

[Dismal]

Cr4p ohh niloloko ako joke lang
hala bat ko tinawag di naman sasagot yan

HIndi ka naman inaano. May pasumbong sumbong ka pa sa kanya. hahaha

 

[Reen-Oath]

HIndi ka naman inaano. May pasumbong sumbong ka pa sa kanya. hahaha

hehe joke lang pareng sprig

 

[Bonekiller]

Buhay pa sya ngayun nasa quiapo isang technician.

 

[Reen-Oath]

Buhay pa sya ngayun nasa quiapo isang technician.

oo nga master

medyo nanghinayang ako sa kakayahan nya akala ko kinuha na sya ng mga taga ibang bansa para maging programmer

By The Way: Salamat Master Sa Pagbisita Sa aking thread
Goodnight Po..

 

[Xerodeu]

For additional information about Computer worm:

-ILY Virus Manage to spread worldwide and even make the Microsoft,CIA,Pentagon,And other organization shut their email services and connection from the internet.

*Worm is a standalone malware that can spread itself without human interaction or Being executed by a person

-This virus will send an attachment containing an love letter as the TS said then once you open it The worm will do the infection and sending a another malware attached to the email and doing it again and again Until it infect a large number of computer world wide.

 

[Reen-Oath]

For additional information about Computer worm:

-ILY Virus Manage to spread worldwide and even make the Microsoft,CIA,Pentagon,And other organization shut their email services and connection from the internet.

*Worm is a standalone malware that can spread itself without human interaction or Being executed by a person

-This virus will send an attachment containing an love letter as the TS said then once you open it The worm will do the infection and sending a another malware attached to the email and doing it again and again Until it infect a large number of computer world wide.

thanks for additional info