Over ten million Windows personal computers were infected by the computer worm ILOVEYOU, also known as Love Bug or Love Letter for you, on or after May 5, 2000. With the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs," it first spread via email. Due to the fact that the latter file extension (VBS, a sort of interpreted file) is typically hidden by default on Windows machines at the time, uninformed users may have mistaken it for a regular text file. The Visual Basic script is launched when the attachment is opened. The worm first damages the local workstation by overwriting arbitrary files, including Office files and image files (albeit it conceals MP3 files rather than erasing them), and then it spreads to remote computers.
Long-term impact of ILOVEYOU virus
ILOVEYOU was one of the first real-world examples of the use of social engineering to perpetrate a cybercrime. In the 20+ years since ILOVEYOU was created and unleashed, social engineering has become a common attack vector, particularly following the COVID-19 pandemic. ILOVEYOU was also one of the first serious malware incidents to demonstrate the potentially dangerous impact of spam email.
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