Back in 2000, one of the trickiest PC malware at any point was recognized on May 4 in Philippines. Around 10% of the web clients committed an immense slip-up by going on the name of this unsafe worm.
The infection played on an extreme human feeling of the should be cherished in light of which it turned into a worldwide pandemic in only one evening. The bug was communicated by means of email having a title "ILOVEYOU" - a thought interesting to a large number of us with a connected record to it which peruses as - Love-Letter-For-You.TXT.vbs. When the document was opened, the infection took the freedom of messaging itself to the first 50 contacts present in quite a while address book and furthermore tainted the mixed media records saved in the framework causing harms that added up to $5.5 billion.
Gone through email as a message from a mysterious admirer. At the point when clients downloaded the connection called WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE, the infection would duplicate and implant itself in key documents; including Vault keys.
Thought to have been made by Onel de Guzman (Philippines) in 2000.
At first spread through email and later through IRC clients.
Harm brought about by the infection was assessed at around $10 billion.