I Love You Virus
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| I Love You Virus |
In the past few years many viruses have been developed which created very strong new generation of viruses, among these viruses we find “I Love You Virus", this virus is very dangerous and very strong, that's why we’ll take about how it works and how dangerous it’s on your computers.
What's I Love You Virus?
I love You virus is the kind of
virus that hits your computer when you open a message sent to you, and it's
subject is “I Love You Virus”, once you open this message’s attachment your
computer gets infected, and causes the lost of many data you got on your
computer, including: MP3, and other certain kinds of data.
I Love You Virus is a VBScript program
that's activated when clicking a double click on it, companies tried to overcome
the hackers by blocking every E-mail message containing I love You as a subject
of the message, but of course the hackers outsmarted them putting other catchy
phrases such as: Mother's day and Joke, and other lines that makes you eager to
open it and clicking on the attachment.
What made I Love You Virus so dangerous
Which makes this virus very
dangerous is it spreads on its own, as once your computer is infected with the
virus sends itself again to every contact you have on your own male, in a
similar way of snowballs.
2004 was the year this
virus got to the peak in, as it affected around 45 million devices which were a
very huge number back then causing E-mail company to shutdown its services in
many major companies fearing that it could spread more and more, and this
caused so much losses to these companies.
As we said “I Love You Virus” caused
huge damages to the big companies, and an overall loss estimated as ten billion
dollars back then, which represents the crazy damage this virus caused, and
maybe makes it the biggest attack in history of internet.
So, we could say that this virus broke
so many hearts and wallets, but of course we can't see I Love You Virus causing
any damage anymore.
Who started it?
Well, it's thought to be started from
Philippines, but the person responsible for creating it and spreading it all
around the world is still unknown, though it's thought to be “Onel de
Gozman" but nothing was proved on him after taking him to court facing charges
of theft.
How to protect your computer from any attacks?
There's a list of things to do to protect
your computer from Wanaa Cry Virus, and it's:
· Download the patch, and I believe 99% of people using computers
have downloaded it years ago.
· Depend on trusted security software to help secure your own
important files and images.
· Always update your own operating system, and the security software
that you use.
· Use an external hard disk to pack up your data to it.
· Use the clouds to store the important data.
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