Deadliest Computer Viruses in History
A computer virus is a type of malicious software, or malware, that spreads between computers and causes damage to data and software. 10.- ILOVEYOU 💓 ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as Love Bug or Love Letter for you, is a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs." 9.- Code Red Code Red was a computer worm observed on the Internet on July 15, 2001. It attacked computers running Microsoft's IIS web server, the largest group of infected computers was seen on July 19, 2001. On that day, the number of infected hosts reached 359,000 . 8.- Melissa This virus started in 1999 as an infected word document. This was posted online, claiming to be a list of passwords to adult websites. Once opened, it would mail itself to the user's email contacts. The increased email traffic caused disruption ...
