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Love Bug Looms Over Valentine's Day
News An antivirus vendor warns that the Love Bug, which caused so much disaster for Internet users in May last year, could cause more heartbreak by coming back to life again this Valentine's Day. Eleven percent of the people surveyed had received the...
[February 7, 2001, 7:54]
'Love Bug' Variant 'Cartolina' Sends European Postcards
News An Italian version of the "Love Bug" was reportedly spreading across Europe Wednesday night, hitting at least ten companies in Germany, France and Italy. The email containing the bug is written in Italian however so the risk of an outbreak in the...
[February 8, 2001, 8:51]
Love Bug Inspires Follow-ups
News The Love Bug, which swamped email servers worldwide Thursday with messages declaring "ILOVEYOU", has spawned a few offsprings, according to virus experts. For full coverage, see the Love Bug Special. The attached file seems to be simply a renamed...
[May 5, 2000, 9:54]
Love Bug Could Cost UK A Billion Say Experts
News The Love Bug is still troubling UK firms a day after it was first reported on ZDNet and initial estimates put the cost to Britain's businesses in the billions. Street goes on to say that the impact of the Love Bug on Britain has been devastating.
[May 5, 2000, 14:34]
News Burst: 'Love Bug' Suspect Set Free
News Philippine police released Tuesday the man suspected of writing the "Love Bug" computer worm, citing a lack of evidence. Reonel Ramones, a 27-year-old bank employee, was arrested by the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Monday.
[May 9, 2000, 11:12]
Love Bug: Could It Have Been Prevented?
News It might seem absurd that a couple of pages worth of computer code could bring the world's major corporate and governmental email systems to their knees, but that's exactly what the "Love Bug" worm virus has done.
[May 5, 2000, 16:46]
'Love Bug' Comes In 13 Variants
News Love turned to hate today when workers returned to work to find yet another mutation of the costly 'love bug' biting their computers. There are now 13 variants of the worm, dubbed the love bug, including a new hate email, which urges recipients to...
[May 8, 2000, 10:19]
A Year Ago: Love Bug Comes In 13 Variants
News The 'Love Bug', the most virulent computer virus ever created, penetrated millions of computers last week, including those of the Pentagon, the CIA and the British parliament. However, the anti-virus programs used to fight the love bug had been...
[May 8, 2001, 6:09]
Man Accused Of Love Bug Hack Goes Free
News Insufficient evidence is blamed Monday for the collapse of the case against a Filipino student accused of authoring the Love Bug. Questions have been raised over whether the Love Bug was an individual or group effort and several other suspects have...
[August 21, 2000, 11:40]
Jane Wakefield: Have You Caught The Love Bug?
News It has long been said that the three most dangerous words in the English language are "I love you" and for computer users across Europe and the States that was proved correct Thursday. Unsolicited email is usually dull, promising miracle diets or...
[May 5, 2000, 10:13]
The Love Bug: Few Take An Online Sick Day Due To Virus
White Papers The “Love Bug” virus, which interrupted online life in many places around the world in the first week of May, afflicted a surprisingly small number of American Internet users, according to a poll conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
News Burst: Prosecutors Asked To Reconsider Love Bug Charges
News Justice Department prosecutors in the Philippines were urged Tuesday to reconsider a decision not to press charges against the ex-computer student suspected of releasing the catastrophic "I Love You" virus in May, according to reports.
[September 6, 2000, 10:38]
New 'Love' Bug Suspect Named
News AMA Computer College's executive vice president, Ramon Abad, admitted that one of its students may have been the author of the "ILOVEYOU" virus. The student, Onel de Guzman, 23, had proposed to submit as his graduation thesis a "Trojan horse...
[May 10, 2000, 16:52]
Student Wrote Virus Similar To Love Bug As A Thesis
News School officials in the Philippines have confirmed that a college 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 Computer College in...
[May 9, 2000, 12:32]
Italian 'Love Bug' Contained For Now
News Anti-virus experts in Europe said Thursday that an Italian variant of the Love Bug, thought to be spreading with speed during the night, appears to have been contained. US anti-virus firm Trend Micro reported Wednesday that the virus, known as...
[February 8, 2001, 12:45]
Panorama Puts Teenage Hackers Under The Microscope
News The BBC's flagship investigative programme, Panorama, on Monday attempted to unravel some of the mystery surrounding the Love Bug worm, implicating one young Filipino and revealing that the biggest threat to governments and world trade is teenage...
[July 4, 2000, 11:04]
Batten Down The Hatches
News Corporate IT managers were still encountering permutations of the Love Bug this week -- 20, at last count -- a worm that once again exposed vulnerabilities in the Windows platform and showed that anti-virus software, by itself, may not be enough...
[May 10, 2000, 12:13]
Virus Writer Says 'I Love You' Again
News Antivirus experts unearthed a mass-mailing worm on Tuesday, dubbed Assiral, that mimics the Love Bug virus which became famous for luring people into opening an email entitled "ILOVEYOU". The original Love Bug wrought havoc among networks around...
[February 22, 2005, 10:35]
New Virus Creates Shockwaves
News The virus, known as TROJ_Shockwave.a arrives as an email message similar to the infamous Melissa and Love Bug worms. We've learnt from the Love Bug virus, [this virus] has the same capabilities, but we're able to contain it quicker," a spokesperson...
[December 1, 2000, 8:41]
Worms Evolving Into Complex Beasts
News While malicious code -- such as the Love Bug, Hybris, Ramen and 1i0n -- has successfully spread widely, such programs are essentially less evolved than single-celled organisms. Once limited to occasional flare-ups of mass-mailing programs, such as...
[July 12, 2001, 12:53]
