Sunday, 19 April 2015

ILOVEYOU Computer worm


  • Though, it may be old, many of us don't no about the computer worm ILOVEYOU else reffered as Love Letter .
  • This has attacked about tens of millions of windows personnel computer on and after MAY 5 2000.
  • It is just a email with subject "ILOVEYOU" and an attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs" where, the vbs extention will be hidden by default on many windows system.
  • When opening this attachment It will send a copy of itself to all the address in windows address book at MSOutlook.
  • This worm makes the user's computer unbootable.
  • In 2002, it obtained the world record for being the most virulent computer virus at that time.
  • This is how the virus will look
This image shows how it exactly works

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