Facts | The Developers | ILOVEYOU | Misc |
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FALSE, the CIA, Pentagon, and British Parliaments shut down their mailing systems
Did the ILOVEYOU worm cause NASA to shut down their mailing systems?
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YES: Both were college, but were expelled
TRUE OR FALSE: Did the developers attend college?
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Worm
What kind of malware was ILOVEYOU?
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Install an AntiVirus program
What do you have to do in order to get rid of a worm?
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45 million users
How many users were infected?
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The Philippines
What is the country of origin for the ILOVEYOU worm?
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- Love Bug
- Love Letter
What was 1 of the alternative names for the ILOVEYOU worm?
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1st
Among all viruses, what rank overall was the ILOVEYOU worm?
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10%
What % of computers connected to the internet worldwide were infected?
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0 years. There were no laws in the Philippines so all charges were dropped by state prosecutors
How many years were the developers sentenced to?
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Microsoft Visual Basic Script
What program was the worm written in?
- Microsoft Word - Microsoft Visual Basic Script - Microsoft Document Scanning - Microsoft Outlook |
2000
What year was the worm released?
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Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 2000, Windows NT and Windows MT
What were 1 of the 4 operating systems affected?
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Steal online passwords from its victims
What was the main reason the developers created the worm?
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LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU
What was the name of the attachment?
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- JPEG
- MP3 - VPOS (Virtual Point of Sale) - JS (Java Script) - JSE (Java Script Encode File) - CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) - WSH (Windows Scripting Host) - SCT (FoxPro Forms Microsoft) - HTA (Hotmail Extension)
Name 1 of file types were infected
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$15 Billion in damages worldwide
What was the cost in damages for the worm?
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Onel A. De Guzman or Reonel Ramones
Name 1 of the 2 developers
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Replace files with copies of itself, then the worm would send out copies to all the victim's contacts.
What would the worm do?
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"The reason for it’s ‘success’ was that it had tapped into a universal need: the desire to be loved.”
What was Graham Cluley's explanation for IILOVEYOU's success?
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