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Open main menu Wikipedia	Search Show my notifications EditWatch this page Read in another language ILOVEYOU Not to be confused with Lloviu virus. This article is about the computer virus. For other uses, see I Love You, Love Bug, and Love letter. ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as Love Bug or Love Letter, was a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000[1] local time in the Philippines when it started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs". The latter file extension ('vbs', a type of interpreted file) was most often hidden by default on Windows computers of the time (as it is an extension for a file type that is known by Windows), leading unwitting users to think it was a normal text file. Opening the attachment activated the Visual Basic script. The worm did damage on the local machine, overwriting random types of files (including Office files, image files, and audio files; however after overwriting MP3 files the virus would hide the file), and sent a copy of itself to all addresses in the Windows Address Book used by Microsoft Outlook. In contrast, the Melissa virus only sent copies to the first 50 contacts.[2] This made it spread much faster than any other previous email worm.

ILOVEYOU Common name Love Letter Type Computer worm Point of origin Philippines Author(s) Reonel Ramones, Onel De Guzman Operating system(s) affected Windows 9x, Windows 2000 Written in VBScript Key to success Spread Impact Architecture Developments Legislative aftermath See also References External links Talk Last edited 9 days ago by Shellwood RELATED ARTICLES Timeline of computer viruses and worms timeline

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