ILOVEYOU

ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was 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". At the time, Windows computers often hid the latter file extension ("VBS", a type of interpreted file) by default because it is an extension for a file type that Windows knows, leading unwitting users to think it was a normal text file. Opening the attachment activates the Visual Basic script. First, the worm inflicts damage on the local machine, overwriting random files (including Office files and image files; however, it hides MP3 files instead of deleting them), then, it copies itself to all addresses in the Windows Address Book used by Microsoft Outlook, allowing it to spread much faster than any other previous email worm.

Onel de Guzman, a then-24-year-old computer science student at AMA Computer College and resident of Manila, Philippines, created the malware. Because there were no laws in the Philippines against making malware at the time of its creation, the Philippine Congress enacted Republic Act No. 8792, otherwise known as the E-Commerce Law, in July 2000 to discourage future iterations of such activity. However, the Constitution of the Philippines prohibits ex post facto laws, and as such de Guzman could not be prosecuted.

The outbreak was estimated to have caused US$5.5–8.7 billion in damages worldwide, and estimated to cost US$10–15 billion to remove the worm. Within ten days, over fifty million infections had been reported, and it is estimated that 10% of Internet-connected computers in the world had been affected. Damage cited was mostly the time and effort spent getting rid of the infection and recovering files from backups. At the time, it was one of the world's most destructive computer related disasters ever.

Ever since the Glitch gene came out I knew people would use it for virus dragons.

This is such an great piece of computer history to "immortalize" here!
Love the use of Chrys/Mal to further the glitch-iness :P

A hilarious tribute and fantastic match to the worst malware ever, what a creative idea and perfect use of the tertiary!! I also just noticed as I was typing this that this dragon is a G1!! Wow!! Great scene usage too.

omg omg ,,, iloveyou virus ??? this is like the 2nd of this virus i think i've seen, which is super super cool as like ... a tech nerd
i love the use of the genes here!! chry/mal/glitch is so great, with the glitch clearly being more on the virus aspect of things, and then chry/mal .... i don't exactly know how to say it, but regardless, that is absolutely amazing gene choices ^_^
11/10 dergie !!! absolutely adoring seeing more niche things pop up!

I'm a proud filipino, I would pick the world's most destructive computer related disasters as long as it is Filipino made /joking/silly

Fun fact: The creator now works at a small mobile phone repair booth, at least the last time the public has seen him.