In May 200, Onel de Guzman, a student from the Philippines, was arrestes for creating the most famous virus in history while he was studyng computing at university. The love Bug virus came as an email attachment which said " I love you". People thought the attachment was a love lettler, so they immediately opened it. the virus sent itself to everyone in their address book and then deleted important files on the computer's hard disk.
Even when people thought they had got rid of the virus, it was clever enough to sit waiting in an unopened file. The virus spread around the world extremely quickly and after only one day about 45 million computers were infected. Love Bug did a lot of damage to businesses in Asia, Europe and the USA, ans cost them over $10 bilion. Fortunately for him, Onel de Guzman wasn't sent tp prison because at that time there were no laws in the Philippines for computer crime.
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