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View Resource A Funny Way of Showing It: ILoveYou Worm is Most Damaging Virus Yet

Vast numbers of users yesterday were doubtless disappointed to find that not only did they not have a secret admirer, but they had caught viruses in trying to open their "love letters." A new destructive worm swept computers around the world on Thursday, infecting systems in the Pentagon, the CIA, Parliament, and Ford Motor Company, to name just a few. Like the Melissa virus and so many of its...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2000/0505