10 years ago yesterday, The
ILOVEYOU or LOVELETTER computer worm successfully attacked tens of millions of Windows computers in 2000 when it was sent as an attachment to an email message with the text "ILOVEYOU" in the subject line.
Mefi Was There that day when Onel De Guzman released a virus that he had proposed creating as part of his undergraduate thesis.
The BBC Looks Back. The key part of the virus was not any technical trick but the wording of the subject line - ILOVEYOU - and its attachment LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.
posted by Blake
on May 5, 2010 -
28 comments
So I
Google search on the
SoBig virus' affinity for UDP port 8998, and the possibility it may be
downloading additional programs this afternoon(actually, right about now). Great, more filters on the routers. Hang on, what's
this result on that first search? A link to
PornResource? Why, it appears to be a news and technical site for porn site operators. News, guides, interviews,
top designers,
host reviews, even a
message board. Of course, a site billed as
"The Standard for Up-To-Date Adult Webmaster News" is NSFW. Unless you are
BossHawg, of course.
posted by dglynn
on Aug 22, 2003 -
10 comments
First JPEG virus discovered... "The W32/Perrun virus, as it is now being called, extracts data from JPEG files and then injects picture files with infected digital images. A fair warning to those individuals who are fond of sending multimedia files to friends and families." Is everyone's porn stash threatened now?
posted by darian
on Jun 14, 2002 -
28 comments
