I Love You Virus
ILOVEYOU (VBS.LoveLetter.A) is a Melissa-like worm that spreads through email and infects certain files. How Does It Spread ILOVEYOU spreads through email. It arrives as an attachment to an email message from someone whose address book contains your email address. The subject line is “ILOVEYOU”, and the message is “kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me.” The attachment is titled “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs.” When you open (click on) the attachment, it automatically mails *itself to every address in your Microsoft Outlook address book. What Does It Do When executed, ILOVEYOU installs itself in your system and mails itself to all the addresses registered in your Microsoft Outlook address book. This can degrade your system performance and clog mail servers. A scan of the visual basic code included in the attachment reveals that the virus may be corrupting files ending with .vbs, .vbe, .js, .jse, css, .wsh, .sct, .hta, .jpg, .jpeg, .mp2 or . hard drives as well as mIRC (a version of Internet Relay Chat). It also appears to reset the default start page for Internet Explorer. This update to Dr. Solomon or McAfee VirusScan will detect the new ILOVEYOU virus. This worm is a VBS program that is sent attached
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