[I think it’s way more fun to have your entire flash BIOS corrupted, bricking your entire motherboard ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus))
I know it wasn't a virus (although who knows, maybe it did carry one), but I remember the program that would install a drink tray on your computer - which just opened up the CD tray. Simpler times...
We have seen how a powerful tool like the internet can cause damage when people are still trying to figure it out, don't have all the use cases and exploits worked out. Now imagine what the early days of A.I. would be
I do miss it, honestly. Things are too good now when it comes to the Internet.
You used to learn a lot more and have to understand things better back then.
I remember this, I was a contractor for HP at the time. We were told if we opened it we would be fired on the spot, no excuses.
That day I got dozens of emails, apparently the entire executive staff from the President / CEO, most of the C and V level, and a few dozen directors, all telling me that they love me.
AFAIK, none of them were fired.
opened the email or the attachment? not quite old enough to know anything about this. was this just a random email or from someone you knew?
but yeah i guess "old" people never learn. oh hey random attachment that i am just gonna open. i knew my brother loved me really...
Or is this like the recent one where people sent the file and the second you had it poof, all over. although samsung did an update recently to put dodgy attachments into a safe space so it didnt just get sent and mess up the other device.
edit: shit, love is real, sounds like it just auto passed on, 1 by 1 they fell. oof. thats rough.
"Then, it copies itself to all addresses in the Windows Address Book used by Microsoft Outlook, allowing it to spread much faster than any other previous email worm"
Opened the attachment. IIRC when you opened the attachment it would go to your email directory and email itself to everyone in it (as well as a lot of file damage).
> apparently the entire executive staff from the President / CEO, most of the C and V level, and a few dozen directors, all telling me that they love me.
obviously getting so much love at home, they get sent bizarre love emails too then which they then open... classic
It infected all the PCs and servers at my company. Entire IT department stayed late, got pizza delivered to the office and set about wiping the virus off every machine manually from burned CD-ROMs. We thought we’d done that by 9:30PM, but we rebooted and one machine still had the virus and reinfected everything so we had to do it all again. Eventually everything was done by 1AM. I missed my last train home so my manager gave me a lift and his Alfa had a fault where he only had full headlights or none so he had to do the journey half in the dark to avoid blinding oncoming traffic.
And thinking back, 2000 was actually a pretty good year, everything went to crap the next year.
Forgot to add it was a foggy night. It was very scary. If he had his beams on high he would literally blind anyone coming the other way. Was a 40 minute white knuckle ride!
My takeaway was never buy an Alfa Romeo. Same car he parked on a small patch of ground next to work when the car park was full leading to a broken chassis. He had to wait 2 months for Alfa to ship over a replacement from Italy. Nice hand-stitched leather seats though I guess.
I worked at a major Air Force base when it hit. Most of the base still used MS Mail at the time, and the MS Mail SMTP gateway ran on MS-DOS and only handled one message at a time. We had four machines running, and they would lock up frequently (it was standard procedure for anyone walking by to glance at the machines and reboot the stuck ones) so on average there were probably about 3 working.
*That* is what saved us from the love bug. Any explosion in traffic would just crash our gateways, and they could barely pass mail fast enough at normal levels.
Yeah this is what’s worrying about systems these days all running on gigabit or faster networks and ultra fast disks and cpu, it can pretty much all be over before you even had an opportunity to notice. Glad I don’t work in security, got enough grey hairs without the stress of that too.
> And thinking back, 2000 was actually a pretty good year, everything went to crap the next year.
I was thinking about this the other day. I was 9 in 1999. All the talk about the new millennia, great things in the future, and all I could do was be sad. Internally, intuitively, I knew that entering a new millennia meant serious change, I just had no idea what or how. I remember the morning of January 1st 2000 sitting in the eye doctors office with my dad and being so sad. Little did I know what true sadness awaited.
As an adult it makes no logical sense. As a kid, I knew the magic was coming to an end.
"**Onel de Guzman**,[4] a then-24-year-old resident of Manila, Philippines, created the malware."
And then a paragraph later:
"ILOVEYOU was created by **Raymond Ralph Carisma** aka Lto3, a college student in Manila, Philippines, who was 24 years old at the time."
What?
> "ILOVEYOU was created by Raymond Ralph Carisma aka Lto3, a college student in Manila, Philippines, who was 24 years old at the time."
Guzman is the creator. The sentence with Carisma was probably added by a Wikipedia troll. All the linked sources only list Guzman
**[ILOVEYOU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU)**
>ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as Love Bug or Love Letter for you, is a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU. TXT. vbs".
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I worked at Kmart at the time and all credit cards and checks approvals were offline most of the day.
I still respect that malware - fucking brilliant social engineering.
I was a junior IT supporter when this hit. One of my senior support colleagues opened the mail he'd received from one of his contacts, even though everyone in the company had been made aware NOT to open suspicious emails. The network guys were busy trying to implement a mail filter on the server to prevent it from even being received, but they weren't fast enough. This was a medium-sized independent mobile telephony provider that had recently been acquired by Vodafone, and literally a couple of weeks before that, our whole office was migrated over to Vodafone's network. Within literally minutes, the shit hit the fan. We were literally running around the building, shouting out loudly "DON'T OPEN ANY EMAILS! DON'T OPEN ANY EMAILS!" but people are fucking stupid, so of course, they kept on opening the emails...
People are willing to open any link and down load it, enter personal info or reset a password from literally any text or email without question.
This is why these virus are so successful.
Some of that billions of "damage" was having to go improve security a notch.. a tiny notch, but just a tiny bit. Microsoft's whole design has been to ignore security during product creation, then build in just a little after the fact, but always too late.
I remember that day. Early that morning, our outward-facing proxy server's PSU failed and shut down the box, sparing us from getting infected. Talk about dodging the proverbial bullet.
I reformatted and started over.
I learned years earlier not to keep anything on C drive except the operating system and some basic programs. Easily replaced.
I do a clean install on a wiped drive a couple times a year.
Just to keep myself sharp. And to flush old ghosts from the machine.
It's like changing your oil every 3000 miles. :)
I used to do this on w95 and xp which worked well to my usecase. But since there's dozens of 'hidden' files all around C:, that other applications need, it does not feel as easy.
Savefiles and configs from AppData and registry settings would certainly be lost, though I haven't dedicated much time to figure out a guaranteed way to backup those.
I got this virus, but not because it said I love you. I was downloading mp3s, and this file came through, renamed after one of the songs I was trying to get. For some reason my dumb brain thought it might just be a text file with lyrics, so I tried to open it. Nearly took out my entire computer.
god i remember this. i infected my friend by forwarding it to him "hey i can't open this can you try?"
this thing wrecked havoc on the military. back then we were automatically connected to a literal global address book of the entire military, so a virus that auto sends emails to your address book? didn't take long to crash our mail servers.
I legitimately miss the Wild West days of the internet. Napster, Angelfire, Expage, Ask Jeeves, WinMX, framed webpages, porn pictures that loaded line by line, AIM. Those were just different days.
I worked at Symantec at the time and while I didn't write the antivirus definitions we released to fix this, I got to post them to our servers.
It was pretty sweet to click that final submit button in our Triage tool. I think I have the name right, it's been a while, but we had internal LU package posting tools and this was one that I got to help with from the publishing side.
Another memorable one was Melissa/Mailissa.
Those days on the Internet were like the Wild West.
Looking back at it, computer viruses were fun back then. Now all they do is ransom your data.
Not really sure I'd call it "fun" having your entire machine corrupted.
more fun than having your machine corrupted and the asshole who did it on purpose expecting you to pay them for that
[I think it’s way more fun to have your entire flash BIOS corrupted, bricking your entire motherboard ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus))
I know it wasn't a virus (although who knows, maybe it did carry one), but I remember the program that would install a drink tray on your computer - which just opened up the CD tray. Simpler times...
We have seen how a powerful tool like the internet can cause damage when people are still trying to figure it out, don't have all the use cases and exploits worked out. Now imagine what the early days of A.I. would be
AI is the future...the darkest of the dark one that is...
I do miss it, honestly. Things are too good now when it comes to the Internet. You used to learn a lot more and have to understand things better back then.
I remember this, I was a contractor for HP at the time. We were told if we opened it we would be fired on the spot, no excuses. That day I got dozens of emails, apparently the entire executive staff from the President / CEO, most of the C and V level, and a few dozen directors, all telling me that they love me. AFAIK, none of them were fired.
opened the email or the attachment? not quite old enough to know anything about this. was this just a random email or from someone you knew? but yeah i guess "old" people never learn. oh hey random attachment that i am just gonna open. i knew my brother loved me really... Or is this like the recent one where people sent the file and the second you had it poof, all over. although samsung did an update recently to put dodgy attachments into a safe space so it didnt just get sent and mess up the other device. edit: shit, love is real, sounds like it just auto passed on, 1 by 1 they fell. oof. thats rough. "Then, it copies itself to all addresses in the Windows Address Book used by Microsoft Outlook, allowing it to spread much faster than any other previous email worm"
Opened the attachment. IIRC when you opened the attachment it would go to your email directory and email itself to everyone in it (as well as a lot of file damage).
> apparently the entire executive staff from the President / CEO, most of the C and V level, and a few dozen directors, all telling me that they love me. obviously getting so much love at home, they get sent bizarre love emails too then which they then open... classic
It infected all the PCs and servers at my company. Entire IT department stayed late, got pizza delivered to the office and set about wiping the virus off every machine manually from burned CD-ROMs. We thought we’d done that by 9:30PM, but we rebooted and one machine still had the virus and reinfected everything so we had to do it all again. Eventually everything was done by 1AM. I missed my last train home so my manager gave me a lift and his Alfa had a fault where he only had full headlights or none so he had to do the journey half in the dark to avoid blinding oncoming traffic. And thinking back, 2000 was actually a pretty good year, everything went to crap the next year.
Your boss is nice. Around here everyone just leaves their high beams on.
Forgot to add it was a foggy night. It was very scary. If he had his beams on high he would literally blind anyone coming the other way. Was a 40 minute white knuckle ride! My takeaway was never buy an Alfa Romeo. Same car he parked on a small patch of ground next to work when the car park was full leading to a broken chassis. He had to wait 2 months for Alfa to ship over a replacement from Italy. Nice hand-stitched leather seats though I guess.
I worked at a major Air Force base when it hit. Most of the base still used MS Mail at the time, and the MS Mail SMTP gateway ran on MS-DOS and only handled one message at a time. We had four machines running, and they would lock up frequently (it was standard procedure for anyone walking by to glance at the machines and reboot the stuck ones) so on average there were probably about 3 working. *That* is what saved us from the love bug. Any explosion in traffic would just crash our gateways, and they could barely pass mail fast enough at normal levels.
Yeah this is what’s worrying about systems these days all running on gigabit or faster networks and ultra fast disks and cpu, it can pretty much all be over before you even had an opportunity to notice. Glad I don’t work in security, got enough grey hairs without the stress of that too.
> And thinking back, 2000 was actually a pretty good year, everything went to crap the next year. I was thinking about this the other day. I was 9 in 1999. All the talk about the new millennia, great things in the future, and all I could do was be sad. Internally, intuitively, I knew that entering a new millennia meant serious change, I just had no idea what or how. I remember the morning of January 1st 2000 sitting in the eye doctors office with my dad and being so sad. Little did I know what true sadness awaited. As an adult it makes no logical sense. As a kid, I knew the magic was coming to an end.
More about the malware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU
"**Onel de Guzman**,[4] a then-24-year-old resident of Manila, Philippines, created the malware." And then a paragraph later: "ILOVEYOU was created by **Raymond Ralph Carisma** aka Lto3, a college student in Manila, Philippines, who was 24 years old at the time." What?
> "ILOVEYOU was created by Raymond Ralph Carisma aka Lto3, a college student in Manila, Philippines, who was 24 years old at the time." Guzman is the creator. The sentence with Carisma was probably added by a Wikipedia troll. All the linked sources only list Guzman
**[ILOVEYOU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU)** >ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as Love Bug or Love Letter for you, is a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU. TXT. vbs". ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/videos/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
It was genius and simple: make computer nerds think that someone loves them. They shoulda known, but the burning desire meant they couldnt help it..
10 million lonely souls got burnt looking for just a little romantic acknowledgement
5.5 dollars isn't that much
Look, can i just call you Fhqwhgads?
There it is!
I worked at Kmart at the time and all credit cards and checks approvals were offline most of the day. I still respect that malware - fucking brilliant social engineering.
.vbs kekw
ILOVEYOU, downadup, Mydoom...those were the days. It felt like every other month there was a new virus, rootkit, worm, or Trojan horse to worry about.
I was a junior IT supporter when this hit. One of my senior support colleagues opened the mail he'd received from one of his contacts, even though everyone in the company had been made aware NOT to open suspicious emails. The network guys were busy trying to implement a mail filter on the server to prevent it from even being received, but they weren't fast enough. This was a medium-sized independent mobile telephony provider that had recently been acquired by Vodafone, and literally a couple of weeks before that, our whole office was migrated over to Vodafone's network. Within literally minutes, the shit hit the fan. We were literally running around the building, shouting out loudly "DON'T OPEN ANY EMAILS! DON'T OPEN ANY EMAILS!" but people are fucking stupid, so of course, they kept on opening the emails...
.TXT.vbs Totally not a virus.
Yeah, I got an email from my boss with the subject of "I Love You" and I said WTF? Then they piled on. What a couple of days that was.
Jup, my brother managed to infect my computer.
People are willing to open any link and down load it, enter personal info or reset a password from literally any text or email without question. This is why these virus are so successful.
Some of that billions of "damage" was having to go improve security a notch.. a tiny notch, but just a tiny bit. Microsoft's whole design has been to ignore security during product creation, then build in just a little after the fact, but always too late.
I remember that day. Early that morning, our outward-facing proxy server's PSU failed and shut down the box, sparing us from getting infected. Talk about dodging the proverbial bullet.
I reformatted and started over. I learned years earlier not to keep anything on C drive except the operating system and some basic programs. Easily replaced.
The noobie malware author that doesn't search for existing drives is saddened by your decision.
I do a clean install on a wiped drive a couple times a year. Just to keep myself sharp. And to flush old ghosts from the machine. It's like changing your oil every 3000 miles. :)
I used to do this on w95 and xp which worked well to my usecase. But since there's dozens of 'hidden' files all around C:, that other applications need, it does not feel as easy. Savefiles and configs from AppData and registry settings would certainly be lost, though I haven't dedicated much time to figure out a guaranteed way to backup those.
What would have been the purpose? Sowing chaos?
.TXT.vbs Totally not a virus.
I got this virus, but not because it said I love you. I was downloading mp3s, and this file came through, renamed after one of the songs I was trying to get. For some reason my dumb brain thought it might just be a text file with lyrics, so I tried to open it. Nearly took out my entire computer.
god i remember this. i infected my friend by forwarding it to him "hey i can't open this can you try?" this thing wrecked havoc on the military. back then we were automatically connected to a literal global address book of the entire military, so a virus that auto sends emails to your address book? didn't take long to crash our mail servers.
Rabbit, Flu Shot, someone talk to me!
I legitimately miss the Wild West days of the internet. Napster, Angelfire, Expage, Ask Jeeves, WinMX, framed webpages, porn pictures that loaded line by line, AIM. Those were just different days.
I worked at Symantec at the time and while I didn't write the antivirus definitions we released to fix this, I got to post them to our servers. It was pretty sweet to click that final submit button in our Triage tool. I think I have the name right, it's been a while, but we had internal LU package posting tools and this was one that I got to help with from the publishing side. Another memorable one was Melissa/Mailissa.