It255 Iloveyou Virus
EYOUILOVEYOU, sometime referred to as Love Letter, was a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of windows personal computers on and after May 5th 2000. It started in Philippines, spreading as an email message with the subject line “ILOVEYOU” and the attachment “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs”. the latter file extension in this case is .vbs but by default it don’t show up in the windows files it will comes up as the normal text file to end user, .vbs is interpreted file that when they click the text file thinking it was love letter form one of their ex-boyfriend(s), they activate Visual Basic script which was the virus and once it activated it will send first 50 addresses in the Windows Address Book used by Microsoft Outlook. It damaged local machine, overwriting image files. Virus stared in Manila, Philippines on May 5th 2000, it moved to Hong Kong then Europe and then finally the US. As employees began their workday that Friday morning virus have already caused US $5.5 to 8.7 Billion in damages worldwide and estimated to cost US $15 billion to remove the worm within ten days. Over fifty million infection had been reported, it was reported that 10% of internet-connected computers in the world. Damaged cited was mostly the time and effort spent getting rid of the infection and recovering files form back up. To protect them, The Pentagon, CIA, The British Parliament and most large corporation decided to completely shut down their mail system. On 5 May 2000, two young Filipino computer programmers named Reomel Ramores and Onel de Guzman became targets of a criminal investigation by agents of the Philippines ' National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). Local Internet service provider Sky Internet had reported receiving numerous contacts from European computer users alleging that malware (in the form of the "ILOVEYOU" worm) had been sent via the ISP 's servers. After surveillance and investigation by Darwin Bawasanta of Sky Internet, the NBI traced a frequently
Cited: Rouse, Margaret. "ILOVEYOU Virus." What Is ? Search Security, Feb. 2006. Web. 02 Mar. 2013.