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May 5, 2020 03:28 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/atzc2uTlWCM/how-microsoft-fought-the-iloveyou-virus-20-years-ago
How Microsoft Fought the 'ILOVEYOU' Virus 20 Years Ago
The inside story of 'ILOVEYOU' and two other viruses from two decades ago. Steven Sinofsky, who worked at Microsoft from 1989-2012 and oversaw the Office (1998-2006) and Windows (2006-2012) teams, writes (shared by reader harrymcc): One morning during the first week of May of the new millennium, I received a call at my apartment while I was getting ready for work. I heard a female reporter tell me her name, and then basically listened to her hyperventilating and proclaiming her love for me repeatedly: "I love you. I love you." That's what I heard, anyway. The call. A reporter. Early morning. It was all weird. In reality, LOVE broke out all over the internet. Over the span of a weekend, inboxes around the world of Outlook and Exchange email users were inundated with dozens of copies of email messages with the subject line, "ILOVEYOU." I learned from the reporter that the LOVE email incident was deemed so serious that the PR lead gave her my home number and simultaneously sent me a briefing via email. In the era of dial-up, I could not read the email and talk on the phone because I only had one analog phone line at home. I had no idea what was going on, so I agreed to return the call after I dialed up and downloaded my email. That's when I realized the magnitude of the issue.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/atzc2uTlWCM/how-microsoft-fought-the-iloveyou-virus-20-years-ago
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