ILOVEYOU Virus

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    ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as Love Bug or Love Letter for you, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs."[1] At the time, Windows computers often hid the latter file extension ("VBS," a type of interpreted file) by default because it is an extension for a file type that Windows knows.

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    About ILOVEYOU Virus

    ILOVEYOU, also known as Love Bug, is a notorious computer worm that spread rapidly in May 2000, infecting millions of Windows PCs. It was transmitted via email with the subject 'ILOVEYOU' and an attachment named 'LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs'.

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