What is "I Love You" Computer Virus (It's a Virus Not an Expression of Love) - Most Devastating Computer Viruses

In the year 2000, there was such a virus emerged which had taken the entire world under its grip, even though it was not a human virus but a computer virus, but still, its damage cost was estimated to be around Rs 10,000 crore. The name of this virus was "I LOVE YOU", and it started spreading through emails. Let's say you have received an email, and its title says "I love you" and its attachment contains a love letter for you, then, of course, people will be curious and anyone will want to open it. So something similar happened during the year 2000. Then after opening the attachment of this email, that virus used to spread in the computer and automatically sent the same message to all the contacts available in your inbox. As a result, if this virus further affected the computer of any one of them, then it would spread further to all the contacts of that person. So while doing so, this virus had spread to millions of computers across the world and became one of the most devastating viruses ever.

Some other dangerous computer viruses across the internet

Yankee Doodle

Yankee Doodle is also a very dangerous virus that was created in 1989 by a Bulgarian hacker. This virus makes itself the memory store of the computer as soon as it enters the system and started to infect all .com and .exe files. If this virus is in the computer, then "Yankee Doodle" starts ringing in the form of an alarm at 4 o'clock every day.

Morris Worm

The Morris worm virus was invented in 1988 by a graduate student at Cornell University and when this virus started spreading, 60,000 computers were connected to the Internet and the virus showed its effect on 10%. This virus has the ability to slow down the computer to a great extent, due to which the computer remains in a slow ability to work.

Nimda

Nimda virus was invented in 2001 and the name of this virus is derived from the English word admin. If you reverse the word admin, the name of this virus will emerge. The virus spreads mainly in four different ways, infecting Microsoft's web servers containing computers, Internet Information Server, and computer users who open e-mail attachments. The main purpose of the Nimda virus was to slow down internet traffic and it became the fastest spreading virus on the Internet as it took only 22 minutes to reach the top of the list of reported attacks.

Conficker

Conficker is also known as Downup, Downadup, and Kido, and it is a type of computer virus that usually targets the Microsoft Windows operating system, and was first detected in November 2008. Most people in the world usually use Windows, due to which the virus has spread its range in over 190 countries, infecting millions of computers including government, business, and home.

Now If we talk about the most devastating viruses, in terms of damage cost, there was a virus named Mydoom, which is the most devastating virus to date, that caused estimated damage of $38 billion in 2004. It was counted as the worst computer virus outbreak in history. After that, there was a virus named SoBig in 2003 which caused more than $37.1 billion in devastation. So let us give you a piece of security information that you should not open any unknown messages or links and should not download apps from anywhere else than the Play Store and AppStore because hackers are always looking for new techniques to cause harm. People should have awareness of computer safety, and the same with mobiles too because mobile is also a kind of computer. And nowadays all the people whose bank balance is suddenly getting nil while logged in through mobile, so to avoid these frauds you should do what experts say, always choose official sources and don't download unknown apps.