The virus arrived in e-mail boxes on May 4 , 2000 , with the simple subject of "ILOVEYOU" and an attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". Upon opening the attachment, the virus sent a copy of itself to everyone in the user's address list, posing as the user. It also made a number of malicious changes to the user's system.
Such propagation mechanism (though in IBM mainframe rather than MS Windows Christmas Tree EXEC of 1987 , which brought down a large fraction of the world's mainframes at the time.
It began in the Philippines on may 4 2000, and spread across the world in one day (traveling from Hong-Kong to Europe to the United States), infecting 10 percent of all computers connected to the Internet and causing about $5.5 billion in damage. Most of the "damage" was the labor of getting rid of the virus. The Pentagon, CIA, and the British Parliament had to shut down their e-mail systems to get rid of the virus, as did most large corporations.
But want to know the source code-program written- of this virus. Find interest in the code below. I print, scan it and save to jpeg format so as not to pose any danger in ur pc.Written using VBS (thanks to microsoft..waah).. Java Virtual Machine i think more secured. The source code.
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