What Is the ILOVEYOU Virus?

The ILOVEYOU virus is a worm that is mainly transmitted by mail. The virus uses the fake coat of ILOVEYOU to trick related users to open the VBS attachment in their memory to infect the virus. After infection, the virus will spread through the Outlook address book, and a large number of relevant accounts and passwords will be searched in this machine and sent to developers, which is a type of malignant virus. So computer users should be reminded to be alert to unknown emails and not to open attachments contained in emails of unknown origin.

ILOVEYOU virus

ILOVEYOU virus is a type of virus

The ILOVEYOU virus comes from an email with an attachment titled "I LOVE YOU". Once you open the attachment in the "I love you" message, you will be infected with the ILOVEYOU virus immediately. The ILOVEYOU virus will automatically forward ILOVEYOU virus messages to all contacts in the address bar of Microsoft Outlook software. At the same time, JPEG, MP3 files and some other files on the local computer's hard drive will be automatically lost. Because Microsoft Outlook software is widely used as an email manager in the company. Therefore, the ILOVEYOU virus will spread rapidly within the company at a very fast rate. On May 4, 2000, the ILOVEYOU virus spread so quickly that many well-known large companies like Ford had to decide to shut down their email systems. This virus infected about 45 million computer users in one day.

The ILOVEYOU virus carries a piece of code written in VBScript language. Once the virus is activated, it will find the address bar of Outlook software, and automatically resend the ILOVEYOU email to each contact in the address bar, while rewriting or deleting all JPEG, MP3, VPOS, JS, JSE, CSS, WSH, SCT And HTA type files. Users will completely lose all files that have not been backed up. (In March 1999, a virus named Melissa also used the Outlook software's address bar to automatically send emails to copy itself, but it did not delete the system files.) Not only that, the ILOVEYOU virus was able to Destroy the Internet browser in some way, causing even more trouble. It will also overwrite the registration information of the Windows operating system. Network spread is also achieved through the Internet Relay Chat system. ^[1]

In a letter titled "ILOVEYOU"

The virus will send automatic letters through the list of infected people's Outlook address book to spread on a large scale in a chain, causing the company's mail server to fail. When the virus attacks, it will infect and overwrite the attached file names: * .mp3, * .vbs, * .jpg, * .jpeg, * .hta, * .vbe, * .js, * .jse .... etc. Ten kinds

1. When you open a virus file for the first time, the virus will automatically generate the following files in

Prevention

When you receive an email with the subject line "ILOVEYOU", you should delete it immediately. Do not open the attachment to avoid poisoning. Then delete it immediately, even if the sender is someone you know, do nt open the attached file to avoid poisoning.

2. Automatic antivirus.

1) Install anti-virus software and implement automatic anti-virus.

2) Search for ILoveYou virus remover. Antivirus after installation.

3. Manual Antivirus

If you receive an email with the subject line "ILOVEYOU", you should delete it immediately. Even if the sender is someone you know, do not open the attached file to avoid poisoning.

1. Click Start => Run (R)

2. Enter regedit

3. Find the following path and delete HKEY_LOCAL_machine \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ windows \ currentVersion \ Run \ MSKernel32 "

HKEY_LOCAL_machine \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ windows \ currentVersion \ RunServices \ Win32DLL "

HKEY_LOCAL_machine \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ windows \ currentVersion \ Run \ WIN-BUGSFIX "

4. Delete the following files:

\ windows \ Win32DLL.VBS

\ system \ MSKernel32.VBS

\ system \ LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.VBS

\ system \ LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.HTML

And do nt use only one antivirus software, and update it frequently