Hello and welcome to Bedtimewonders! I hope you all are having a good time reading our blogs. Tonight, I'm going to share the story of the malware hall of fame created by a Filipino hacker, the "ILOVEYOU" virus.
Are you fond of reading love letters? In case you want to get a soothing love letter via email this year, ensure you're not opening some unacceptable one.
It happened back in the year 2000. The ILOVEYOU virus or "Love Bug," while apparently innocent, is by far one of the most noticeably terrible malware. It holds the Guinness World Record for "Most destructive virus of all time," causing almost $15 billion in harm!
The malware was made by Onel de Guzman, an understudy at a nearby computer school, who created the beginnings of the virus as a proposal for the thesis. However, the proposition was immediately rejected. De Guzman was poor and is struggling to pay for Internet access. At that point, he made the PC worm planning to take other clients' passwords, which he could use to sign in to their Internet accounts without expecting to pay for the help. He advocated his activities on his conviction that Internet access is common liberty and that he was not really stealing.
The worm was extremely simple to make because of a bug in Windows 95 that would run code in email attachments when the client tapped on them. Initially planning the worm to just work in Manila, he eliminated this geographic limitation to straighten something up, which permitted the worm to spread worldwide. De Guzman didn't expect this overall spread.
Victims would get an email with the title "ILOVEYOU," which would contain an apparently guiltless email connection. When opened, the virus immediately took control, sending duplicates of itself to everybody in the victim's email address book. As the virus spread, it also destroyed a significant part of the victim's hard drive, renaming and erasing many documents. The email, which acted as an honest content record, was given the cutesy name of LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.
Originated in the Philippines, there were no present antivirus laws that made the virus legitimate. After his capture, Guzman was delivered with all charges dropped.
Because of the worldwide threat that ILOVEYOU presented and the money-related effect on influential organizations, the Philippines and numerous different nations set up laws against composing malware.
Although the ILOVEYOU virus is a distant memory, we can, in any case, take in a couple of critical exercises from its effect on the world of online protection.
Try not to open suspicious messages, even from companions and family.
back up your data
Utilize a solid antivirus program and a significantly more grounded virus removal device.
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