I Love You Bug Virus
The bug was programmed to replace all files with media extensions such as images documents and mp3s with.
I love you bug virus. The latter file extension vbs a type of interpreted file was. The iloveyou virus sometimes related to as love letter or love bug was triggered as an email message with the subject line iloveyou and the attachment love letter for you txt vbs. The vbs was mistaken by users as a normal text file however the vbs actually the vbscript program which the hackers used to create the worm. Ten years ago the love bug virus was released setting the stage for the modern day explosion of cybercrime.
That makes the love bug computer virus 20 years old today depending on your timezone and how early in the infection chain you were. With apologies to the beatles. Iloveyou sometimes referred to as love bug or love letter for you or fake love fake love letter is a computer worm that infected over ten million windows personal computers on and after 4 may 2000 when it started spreading as an email message with the subject line iloveyou and the attachment love letter for you txt vbs. It was 20 years ago today that.