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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".
The Love Bug pandemic began on 4 May, 2000. Victims received an email attachment entitled LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU. It contained malicious code that would overwrite files, steal passwords, and...
Sep 12, 2020 · For two decades, Onel de Guzman has been suspected of unleashing the groundbreaking virus. But he's never confessed to anything—until now. Illustration: Beth Holzer. This story is adapted from...
May 1, 2020 · The love bug and its variants would cause some $10 billion of damage, the FBI later estimated, before updates to anti-virus software and email clients reined them in.
The ILOVEYOU virus comes in an email with "ILOVEYOU" in the subject line and contains an attachment that, when opened, results in the message being re-sent to everyone in the recipient's Microsoft Outlook address book. Perhaps more seriously, it results in the loss of every JPEG, MP3 and certain other files on all recipients' hard disks.
Apr 21, 2020 · After 20 years of silence, Onel de Guzman has admitted unleashing the “Love Bug”, the computer virus that caused havoc by infecting 45 million machines around the world.
Aug 8, 2022 · The mastermind behind the ILOVEYOU outbreak incorporated developments from previous macro viruses, came up with an ultimate social engineering trick (how can anyone ignore a file with the name “I love you”?), added malicious functionality and made the most of automatic malware spreading.
Jul 14, 2023 · The virus appeared on May 4, 2000, and over the next 10 days, it spread to infect around 50 million computers. It’s believed that around 10% of computers were eventually bit by the “love bug.”
May 4, 2010 · The LoveBug showed how to get spam to send itself and how, with a cleverly designed virus that preyed on human psychology and technical failings, malware could rack up enormous numbers of victims.
May 4, 2020 · Five years ago to the day, we wrote up our reminiscence of an infamous and globally troublesome computer pandemic from the turn of the century. That makes the Love Bug computer virus 20 years old today, depending on your timezone and how early in the infection chain you were. It was 20 years ago today.
