dEEpEst Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 The w0rm LOVEYOU I also VBS/L0velLettEr and w0rm kn0wn as Love Bug, is a c0mputEr w0rm written in VBScript . DEscRIpti0n The b0xes w0rm email arrived 0n May 4, 2000. With the simple issue 0f "IL0VE Y0U" and a file attachment "-LETTER-L0VE F0R-Y0U.TXT.vbs." Two aspects of the worm made effective: * It relied on social engineering to entice users to open the mail electronic and ensure its continued propagation. * We used a mechanism - VBScripts - which, although is not entirely new, had not been previously exploited to such degree to direct his attention to potential reduction topcoats that has to be traveled by success. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up The virus is written using Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting (VBS), and requires the end user to run the script to deliver its payload. Added a set of registry keys to the Windows registry that allows the malware to that starts at every boot. virus will search all drives that are connected to the infected computer and replace files with the extensions *. JPG, *. Jpeg, *. VBS, *. VBE, *. JS, *. JSE, *. CSS, *. WSH, *. SCT *. * DOC. HTA with copies of itself, while appending a file name .. VBS extension. The malware will also locate *. MP3 and *. MP2, and when found, make files hidden, copy itself with the same filename and append a. VBS. The virus spreads by sending copies of itself to all entries in the address book of Microsoft Outlook. has also an additional component, which is downloaded and run an infected program called variously "WIN-BUGSFIX.EXE" or "Microsoftv25.exe." This is a password-stealing program which will e-mail passwords cached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0b3y Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Re: The old virus_ I love you_ [devesh] Very old but it stils working, cheked ;) Have you got the Melissa virus too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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