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ILOVEYOU: French virus centres on the defensive

...come under fire for refusing to estimate the costs instigated by the ILOVEYOU virus and its derivatives Read more

15 May, 2000 by Jerome Thorel

Lovebug author may get 6 months jail

...taking no prisoners with this one, he accuses users who got the ILOVEYOU virus of having the IQ equivilent to a pin mould. Go to... Read more

9 May, 2000 by Mervin Chua

...ILOVEYOU' virus fix available

...patch to its VirusScan software for protecting PCs from the quickly-spreading "ILOVEYOU" virus. The software and patch are available here. The virus has disabled... Read more

4 May, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Virus Alert: ILOVEYOU Virus hits Europe

Before you do anything today... READ THIS STORY Read more

4 May, 2000 by Will Knight

Student wrote virus similar to love bug as a thesis

...student wrote a password-stealing application similar to that used by the ILOVEYOU virus, according to press reports Tuesday. Executive vice president of the AMA... Read more

9 May, 2000 by Will Knight

The love bug

...a day the whole world had got its guard up for the ILOVEYOU virus. Is this a record? Which camp are you sitting in, or... Read more

5 May, 2000 by Tony Westbrook

Love Bug inspires follow-ups

...of the "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs" attachment that accompanies the ILOVEYOU virus. Other variants include one with the header "Good Joke" and another... Read more

5 May, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Virus blame passes to users

...cheese architecture of its Outlook e-mail client's exploitation by the ILoveYou virus Read more

27 February, 2001 by Scot Petersen

'ILOVEYOU' comes to America

...ILOVEYOU' virus is slamming US organisations, according to early reports Read more

4 May, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Who writes viruses?

...serve in prison is three years. Onel de Guzman: Sent out the 'Iloveyou' virus, which cost $7bn. Arrested and then released for lack of an... Read more

25 September, 2003 by Scorp

Why the Klez worm just won't go away

...often followed by copycat variants. For example, within days of the original ILOVEYOU virus infection that took place two years ago, some 40 ILOVEYOU variants... Read more

24 April, 2002 by Robert Vamosi

Turning script kiddies into programmers

...de Guzman, the 20-something Filipino college students who allegedly wrote the ILOVEYOU virus; MafiaBoy, the 17-year-old Canadian who created one of the... Read more

22 January, 2002 by Robert Vamosi

Child's play: the 'kiddies' behind Goner

...at the rate of 1 in every 30 emails. By comparison, the ILOVEYOU virus spread at the rate of 1 in every 28 emails Read more

13 December, 2001 by Robert Vamosi

A Year Ago: New 'LoveBug' suspect named

...is still reeling from the shock of the cutely and seductively named ILOVEYOU virus. Go with Peter Coffee to AnchorDesk UK and read the news... Read more

10 May, 2001 by Danny Manalo

End to email viruses may be nigh

...preventing confidential information leaks to come up with the ::Mail concept. The ILOVEYOU virus caused chaos around the world last May when it overloaded the... Read more

24 April, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

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