The ILOVEYOU virus went for the heart, hoping you'd take a chance and open an attachment labeled as a love letter.
Really? People fell for this? Yes.
As many as 10 percent of all Internet-connected computers were infected at the virus's peak in 2000.
The virus spread through the email
attachments, but it also replicated itself on a computer's hard drive,
directing the computer to download a password-stealing application from
the Internet.
Worldwide damage estimates were in the billions of dollars. All for love, right? Yeah, not so
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