Word: iloveyou
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Anne Guepiere works in the Hong Kong office of a large U.S. company that would prefer to remain nameless. At about 4 o'clock last Thursday, she received an e-mail. It seemed innocuous enough. The subject line read ILOVEYOU. With it came an attached document labeled LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.VBS. How nice. Just a couple of clicks, and her curiosity would be satisfied...
...late. "I didn't even read the 'ILOVEYOU' part," recalls Guepiere, whom history would record as, if not Patient Zero, then surely one of the earliest victims in a global pandemic. "Only when I opened [the attachment] did I realize there was a problem." Indeed, it was a bigger problem than anybody, probably even its mischievous creator, could have imagined as computers everywhere tumbled like so many dominoes. Once again that scourge of the Internet age--a computer virus--had struck. Silently, lethally, without even a hint of a warning fever, it raced around the world at light speed, clogging...
...FALLING! Apocalypse watchers were on full alert last Friday, when the moon, sun and five planets were in close alignment. The day was supposed to bring devastating tidal waves and earthquakes, but the only ruination was caused by the ILOVEYOU computer virus. Hardly a surprise; doomsday milestones have a way of not living up to expectations...
...open that love letter! ILOVEYOU, a computer virus spread by e-mail messages, has been wreaking havoc in Asian, European and American companies since early Thursday morning. Although its effects are expected to be short-lived, the virus is raising questions about the effectiveness of so-called "firewalls" and other security devices that are set up to protect the world's corporations from such an invasion. Appearing in Hong Kong Thursday afternoon local time, ILOVEYOU began spreading at the fastest rate of any virus to date. Its speediness results from its ability to trigger the recipient's e-mail program...
...Computer security experts believe the virus will be under control by Monday, but ILOVEYOU has already caused more damage than last year's Melissa virus, which spurred many companies to invest in costly and complex computer security measures. The fact that ILOVEYOU was seemingly unaffected by most companies' front-line defenses should serve as a wake-up call to businesses that in the ever-mutating world of computer viruses, security software must constantly be updated with the latest technology. "Companies that receive daily updates of good anti-virus software could nip this thing in the bud," Grossman says. Of course...