The name of the first computer virus created in the Philippines is ILOVEYOU virus was called love bug or love letter. It infected more than 10 million computers and started spreading as an email message with the subject I love you.

This message contains an attachment sent in the email LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs. Many users consider the .vbs extension to be a normal text file. This catches the attention of many users and makes them open the attachment. When the user opens the attachment, the Visual Basic script is activated and corrupts the local machine.

This virus is also able to overwrite any files, such as images, and audio, and then send copies of them to all addresses in the Windows address book. Thanks to this, the virus spread much faster than the spread of mail worms. It was created by a 24-year-old resident of Manila, Philippines.

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