advantage of a feature of Microsoft Windows, "Hide extensions for known file types", where only the base file name would be displayed. As such, to victims the attachment could appear to be an inconspicuous .txt file incapable of holding malware, and the worm's real .vbs extension would be hidden.

Variants

Since ILOVEYOU was coded in VBScript, it was relatively easy to modify the worm's code and change its behaviour. Over 25 variants of the ILOVEYOU

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