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DEFINITION: The ILOVEYOU virus comes in an e-mail note with "I LOVE YOU" in the subject line and contains an attachment that, when opened, results in the message being re-sent to everyone in the recipient's Microsoft Outlook address book and, perhaps more seriously, the loss of every JPEG, MP3,  … 
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The Online Shadow Economy: A Billion Dollar Market for Malware Authors
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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SOFTWARE DEMO:   Posted: 30 Aug 2007 | Published: 30 Aug 2007
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APPLICATION NOTE:   Posted: 17 Nov 2003 | Published: 01 Nov 2003
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SOFTWARE VIRUSES DEFINITION (continued): …  and certain other files on the recipient's hard disk. Because Microsoft Outlook is widely installed as the e-mail handler in corporate networks, the ILOVEYOU virus can spread rapidly from user to user within a corporation. On May 4, 2000, the virus spread so quickly that e-mail had to be shut down in a number of major enterprises such as the Ford Motor Company. The virus reached an estimated 45 million users in a single day.

The attachment in the ILOVEYOU virus is a VBScript … 
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