The ILOVEYOU Virus

The ILOVEYOU virus or also known as Love Bug or Love Letter for you, was a computer worm that infected over 10 million windows personal.

On the machine system level, ILOVEYOU relied on the scripting engine system setting being enabled, and took advantage of a feature in Windows that hid file extensions by default, which malware authors would use as an exploit

Messages generated in the Philippines began to spread westwards through corporate email systems. Because the worm used mailing lists as its source of targets, the messages often appeared to come from acquaintances and were therefore often regarded as "safe" by their victims

The outbreak was later estimated to have caused US$5.5–8.7 billion in damages worldwide

 Some others only modified the credits to the author, which were originally included in the standard version of the virus, removing them completely or referencing false authors.

Some mail messages sent by ILOVEYOU:

• VIRUS ALERT!!
• Important! Read Carefully!!