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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

  • Space Daily Editorial Team--Space Daily
  • published date: 2026-06-12 11:30:51 UTC

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]