The vast majority of users connected to the net by modem, and it was monstrously slow. Of course, the technology at the turn of the millennium was primitive by today’s standards. Today, you can look at archived copies of websites from those days or take an old Windows 98 laptop out of the closet to remember what programs we used - it was like the Stone Age, wasn’t it? Well, not really. The year 2000… That was a long time ago - from 2022, it seems like prehistoric times. Context: the internet is the trendiest technology Let’s look back at its history and talk about how it changed our perception of computer system security. ILOVEYOU was not the first malware to exploit a hole in Microsoft’s e-mail client, but it certainly initiated one of the most serious virus outbreaks at the beginning of the new millennium.
An e-mail with the ILOVEYOU worm looked something like this in the old Microsoft e-mail client.
