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James hookway staff reporter of the wall street journal. Ramones and guzman were dropouts of a computer university in manila. Filipino student says he may have accidentally spread computer. According to guinness world records, the i love you virus was the most widespread computer virus of all time. The virus that hit 50 million people turns 15 vice. It was one of the first worms to effectively use social engineering to prompt victims to open the files, an innovation that was copied by many later forms of malware. Encyclopedia of espionage, intelligence, and security dictionary. I admit i create viruses, but i dont know if its one of mine, he said in an interview here. A filipino linked to love bug talks about his license to. In 1880 there were 146 guzman families living in texas. The man behind the first major computer virus pandemic. It was supposedly a passwordstealing thesis proposalwas rejected by his school. Mar 29, 2018 the history of malware has evolved alongside our favorite software.
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I admit i create viruses, but i dont know if its one. Operating systems affected, windows 9x, windows nt 4. It spread by email, arriving with the subject line iloveyou and an attachment, loveletterforyou. The worm was first discovered in the country under the name of hong kong. He will be summoned by the prosecutor to file his counteraffidavit and present his own evidence, opinion said, adding that the nbi did not have any evidence that others were involved in the spread of the virus. Before the coffee break i told them all the amusing story of a virus.
Iloveyou, sometimes referred to as love bug or love letter for you, is a computer worm that. Top 5 most destructive computer viruses of all time nordvpn. The i love you virus spread quickly among users of microsoft outlook and corporate networks that use the microsoft exchange email server because it sends a copy of itself to every email address in a recipients outlook address book. Early one morning on 4th may, a string of emails began circulating south east asia, quickly spreading to europe and finally the united states. Guzman had failed to graduate, because he had submitted a dissertation that showed how to steal internet login passwords for free access. The central drama and event of truth of the history of the filipino people was the.
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