What is ILOVEYOU Virus? | Worst Computer Viruses| Way2Cert

Love Letter Virus The Love Letter Virus, also known as the Iloveyou virus, ILOVEYOU, and Love Letter, was a computer worm originating in the Philippines, which began infecting computers on May 5, 2000. It spread by e-mail, arriving with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and an attachment, "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs". If the attachment was opened, a Visual Basic script was executed, and the computer was infected. Many recipients were fooled because Microsoft Windows concealed the extension of the file, and it was mistaken as a simple text file. Once executed, the script then e-mailed itself to everyone in the victim's contact list, edited the Windows Registry to execute the worm at startup, and replaced the data in many computer files, including JPEG images and Word documents, with copies of itself. Additional Information The Love Bug was first reported Thursday (05/05/2000) afternoon Hong Kong time and early morning in Europe and sense then it has been duplicated by several copycats causing several more additional similar variants to appear. The virus has caused companies, governments, and end-users extreme grief shutting down mail systems, mail servers, bank systems and even causing issues with pagers. Within ten days, the virus is estimated to have infected 10% of all the networked computers in the world, costing $15 billion to remove in the United States alone. The worm was reported to have come from a couple of the ages 23 and 27 after a raid of their Apartment on Monday (05/08/2000). 05/18/2000 a New virus alert was announced with the release of the NEWLOVE virus. See information about this virus. Love bug variants The Love Bug infects all users who are using Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook. The following is what will be the subject, message and the actual attachment for each of the currently known wild viruses. If you see this e-mail, do not attempt to open the attachment and instead delete the mail even if the message is from someone you know well. Variant A (Original Virus) Subject: ILOVEYOU Message: kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me." Attachment: LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs Special Notes: The virus begins by copying itself into the Windows directory placing Win32dll.vbs and LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs. Once these files have been placed on the hard drive the virus will then place itself into the computer Registry making the virus initiate on each of the following boots. The virus also attempts to delete the HideSharePwds, DisablePwdCaching, and DisablePwdCaching from the computer Registry. Once these modifications have been made to the computer it will then send itself to each of the individuals in the address book with the Subject ILOVEYOU. To complete the destruction the destruction the virus will search out .js, .jse, .css, .wsh, .sct, and .hta creating a duplicate of each of the files found with the .vbs extension. Finally it will search and delete all files with the ".jpg" and ".jpeg" (these are the most commonly found image file format on the Internet.) Next the virus will search for ".mp3" and ".mp2" files replacing all files found with ".vbs" extension and hiding the original ".mp3" and ".mp2" files sourse code ILOVEYOU virus click here http://www.cexx.org/loveletter.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHARE SUPPORT SUBSCRIBE!!! Subscribe: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Way2Cert Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/Way2Cert Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/Way2Cert _______________ DISCLAIMER_________________ This Channel DOES NOT Promote or encourage Any illegal activities, all contents provided by This Channel is meant for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE only. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news re-porting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright. ____________THANKS FOR WATCHING____________