Computer security firm Network Associates estimated that 1,500 clients - potentially tens of thousands of computers - were hit by the wildfire infection, topping by half the number of clients hit by the massive Melissa virus last year.įor all that, the worm amounted to not much more than a glorified Melissa virus with a sprinkling of several other virus "technologies" that have afflicted users in the past 12 months, said David Chess, staff research member of IBM Corp.'s ( ibm) The Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie-Mellon University reported 270,000 computers affected. Some users reported receiving the same nasty e-mail, but one that substituted "I love you" wording with "very funny joke."īut no one was laughing. The ILOVEYOU worm struck hundreds of thousands of computers in Asia, Europe and the United States as workers clicked on an e-mail attachment called. ![]() ![]() In less than six hours Thursday, Love spread worldwide.
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