Who Created The Love Bug Virus
Onel de guzman 24 year old computer knowledgeable filipino admits to creating computer viruses but claims uncertainty as to whether love bug virus that plagued computers globally is one he.
Who created the love bug virus. The virus nicknamed the love bug and the killer from manila after its apparent philippine origins is carried in an email with the heading iloveyou. Ten years ago the love bug virus was released setting the stage for the modern day explosion of cybercrime. The subject of the e mail said that the message was a love letter from a secret admirer. The love bug pandemic began on 4 may 2000.
It contained malicious code that would overwrite files steal passwords and. From there it sped westward with the sun lying silently in wait in corporate e mail accounts until. The man who created the first major global computer virus has finally admitted he was behind it 20 years after it was unleashed. Onel de guzman said he authored the love bug computer worm to.
The iloveyou virus initially traveled the internet by e mail just like the melissa virus. By week s end the work of investigators was further complicated by the appearance of a number of copycat viruses created either by others or by the love bug s author. Like a real asian influenza the virus first emerged in hong kong. Onel de guzman a 44 year old filipino citizen claims to be the creator of love bug a computer virus capable of extracting passwords to be able to access the internet without paying.
It bore the name iloveyou. Unlike the melissa virus this threat came in the form of a worm it was a standalone program capable of replicating itself. The text of the message reads. 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.