MORE FROM FORBES This Surprisingly Simple Email Trick Will Stop Spam With One Click By Davey Winder Looking back to the archives reveals historical warnings about global virus dangersĬolin Childs, the senior security architect at Octopi Managed Services, has helped compile an historical hacking archive aimed at security researchers and members of the broader infosec community.
As well as overwriting an apparently totally random set of files from documents to photographs, ILOVEYOU would look for the Microsoft Outlook Windows address book and send a copy of itself to all the contacts listed. The act of opening the 'document' executed the script and the ILOVEYOU worm was set free on that computer and any others it was connected to.
vbs was hidden by default from view on Windows machines, so a file called, as in this case, "" appeared for all intents and purposes to be a text document as the last file extension wasn't displayed. The Visual Basic script file extension of.
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