One Of The Most

Dangerous
Computer
Viruses
By:
Alvaran, Anne Lourdes M.
Casuyon, Keisha Jane N.
Mendoza, Kristine D.
 I LOVE YOU

DOES IT REALLY EXIST?

OR
A VIEW OF THE MIST?
I LOVE YOU
VIRUS
 Objectives:
01 To have an idea about one of the most
dangerous computer viruses.

02 To learn the most important information about

the virus.

03 To know how to activate the virus in the

computer.

04
To identify how the virus ended.
 Terminology
Computer Virus Microsoft Outlook Worm Virus Melissa Virus
A malicious program An owned email and A malicious, self- A fast-spreading
that made to infect task management replicating program macro virus that is
vulnerable systems, application that is that can spread distributed as an
gain admin control available with most throughout a network e-mail attachment
and steal user versions of Microsoft without human
sensitive data. Office. assistance.

Visual Basic Scripting Espionage Undergraduate

A component-based
scripting language The act of obtaining A student at a college
developed by Microsoft secret or confidential or university who has
that is used to create information without not yet earned a
and run applications that the permission of the bachelor's degree.
run directly on a holder of the
workstation. information.
I love you virus is
one of the most
dangerous
computer viruses
worldwide
 I LOVE YOU VIRUS

I LOVE YOU Virus The Love Bug Considered to be

is also known as infects all users who one of the most
the love letter virus are using Microsoft destructive
and the lovebug Windows and computer viruses
worm. Microsoft Outlook. of all time.

14 different A computer worm

versions of the virus originating in the
have been identified Philippines and
was created by a
Filipino.
 ILOVEYOU Virus (Love Bug or Love Letter) is a
01
computer worm that disguised as a love letter
sent by email in the year 2000
02 Has an attachment of LOVE-LETTER-FOR-
YOU.TXT.vbs

The email carrying the worm look like this:

Subject: ILOVEYOU
Content: Kindly check the attached LOVELETTER
coming from me.

Attachment: LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs

By: Jonathan Strickland

 PROCESS
Computer worm, in disguise as a
love letter, are sent through an
email.

The virus would hide the files

after overwriting MP3 files and Victims who unintentionally
sent out emails to all addresses opened the attachment activated
in the Windows Address Book the Visual Basic script.
attaching the copy of itself.

The malicious program quickly

started to overwrite random
types of files, and that included
image, office, and audio files.

By: Immanuel(2018)
 ?
Who is it?
 Creator
By: Akshay Chavan (2018)

As part of his
It all started from a undergraduate thesis, he
24-year old Onel de released a virus that he
Guzman who live in had proposed stealing
the Philippines internet login passwords
for free access

Since there was no law for

creating malicious
software in the Philippines
Onel de Guzman, the student who
at that time, Onel de destroyed more than 45 million
Guzman was free without computer softwares
any charges | Courtesy of Wikimedia
Commons
Effects
It attacked tens of It caused a
millions of US$5.5-8.7 billion
Windows PCs damages
worldwide

Over 50 million Caused the

infection are shutdown in a
reported within ten number of major
days enterprises such as
Ford Motor
Company
Countries Affected
The Philippine authorities filed theft and other charges
against Mr. de Guzman. But the case against him was
weakened

Narinnat Suksawat, was the first person to

write software that repaired the damage
caused by the worm., made the “Rational
Killer”.

A software was released that can identify the

virus and designed to block the I Love You bug
and could potentially cause the same damage.
Others chose to shut down their mail systems.

European parliaments, big companies and

financial traders were forced to shut down
and the people are trying to get the latest
anti-virus programs.
 Among the
computer viruses
that exist or
already existed, I
love you virus is
one of the most
threatening
I LOVE YOU Virus is one of the most destructive virus
made in 2000 that travelled the Internet through an email
disguised as a love letter.

Email “Love Letter” -> Activated Visual Basic Script ->

Overwrite random files ->Hide all files and sent copy of
itself

A 24-year old undergraduate Fiipino, Onel De Guzman,

created this destructive virus as part of his thesis

The case against him was weakened as the country

does not have any laws yet regarding computer
espionage.
In just a few hours, the effects of the ILOVEYOU virus
were felt by millions of Internet users around the world
that caused damaged and disturbance to their computer.

It was discovered that the virus had originated from

the Philippines, and spread to Hong Kong, from where
it went on to infect Europe and the United States.

To get rid of the virus, case was charged against the

creator and few anti-virus software was made in
Europe, Hongkong and U.S.A..
 “Not all I love
you’s are true,
some are meant
to destroy you”