The World’s Most Dangerous Virus: ILOVEYOU

Moreover, this worm is created for a very different purpose, but when its creator removes the restrictions on its domain extension, almost chaos occurs. so that Ford Motor Company, AT&T and Microsoft Many organizations such as are affected by this software.

Well ILOVEYOU is different What features does it have?

Although ILOVEYOU is known as a computer virus, it would actually be more accurate to call it a worm.

Because there are some technical differences between viruses and worms. The worm interacts with the user to copy itself. while not requiring any interaction commitment The virus works in the exact opposite way.

The ILOVEYOU worm appears on May 4, 2020 and within the next 10 days spans approximately 50 million computers. This worm was created by a university student named Onel de Guzman in the Philippines.

Since he doesn’t have money, he wants to use it for free. To access online services Creating a worm, Guzman initially aims to steal only the passwords he wants, but he cannot predict how far this worm named ILOVEYOU will spread.

This malware, named ILOVEYOU, spreads via an email attachment.

The user first receives an email with the subject “ILOVEYOU”. The text of the e-mail is “Please check the attached love letter from me.” and as soon as the user opens this e-mail, the worm is downloaded to the system.

Actually ILOVEYOU is a kind of It is a VBScript program. Visual Basic Script or VBScript programs were developed by Microsoft and share much of its code.

Guzman exploits a vulnerability in the Windows 95 e-mail system and thus Hides the extension of the file name that appears in attachments. So the user should enter “.txt.” in the title. It thinks it’s about to open a text file because it sees the extension.

When the love letter worm, also known as the love letter worm, infects a computer, it directly enters Microsoft Outlook.

It then sends a copy of itself to all the contacts in the user’s address book. This trick is the ILOVEYOU worm, including corporate computer networks It causes it to spread rapidly to all computers connected to the internet.

Moreover, this worm not only spreads to computers but also It also renders the files unusable. Many large companies and government agencies, aware of the potential danger, shut down their email systems in the hope of preventing this threat.

ILOVEYOU is quite destructive, spread around the world very quickly, It was an unprecedented experience at the time in terms of infecting and damaging personal computers as well as corporate and government systems.

Guzman, the creator of this worm, is deemed to constitute malware under Philippine law. Since it was not considered a crime at that timeis considered innocent in many of the cases he faces.

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