It was one of the first worms to effectively use social engineering to prompt victims to open the files, an innovation that was copied by many later forms of malware. By: Justin Stoltzfus Contributor, Reviewer. By: Satish Balakrishnan. Dictionary Dictionary Term of the Day.
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Always back up the registry before making any changes. Worms propagate themselves through networks viruses destroy files and replicate themselves by manipulating files. The damage resulting from this particular hybrid- which includes overwhelmed e-mail systems and lost files-is limited to users of the Microsoft Windows operating system. When opened and allowed to run, however, ILOVEYOU attempts to send copies of itself using Microsoft Outlook an electronic mail software program to all entries in all of the recipients address books, infect the Internet Relay Chat IRC program so that the next time a user starts chatting on the Internet, the worm can spread to everyone who connects to the chat server, search for picture, video, and music files and overwrite or replace them with a copy of itself, and install a password-stealing program that will become active when the recipient opens Internet Explorer and reboots the computer.
Internet accounts set up to collect this information were reportedly disabled early Friday.
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