An email with the subject line “ILOVEYOU” infected 45 million computers in 24 hours after it was released in May 2000 — disabling email systems at the Pentagon, the CIA, and most of the world’s largest corporations — and the 23-year-old Filipino college dropout who wrote it now runs a phone repair booth in Manila, never prosecuted because cybercrime was not yet illegal in the Philippines
You receive an email from someone you know. The subject line reads, simply, “ILOVEYOU.” The attachment is called LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs — though most email clients in May 2000 hid the .vbs file extension by default, so what you see is just LOVE-LETTER-FO…
You receive an email from someone you know. The subject line reads, simply, “ILOVEYOU.” The attachment is called LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs though most email clients in May 2000 hid the .vbs file ex… [+9264 chars]