My father received this virus back in the day at the company he worked for at the time. Fortunately he didn't open it, but after other coworkers did and told him what it was, he saved a copy of the virus to a floppy disc and still has it in our house.
@@Wqube Yeah you could even see that the version of Windows he was using in this video (while otherwise accurate to the ones targeted) had additional security measures that were presumably added to it later in order to prevent this sort of thing happening again
I've worked in IT for 30 years and I remember the day someone opened this and infected every single .JPG file on the network of the 300 person six office company I worked for. I remember the NIMDA virus too, and my company was the first one to get infected. I worked from 8:00 AM to 2:30 AM that day. I will never forget it.
That's kind of a downgrade from such notoriety. Could have used those talents to make millions of dollars. But at least he's got an honest way of living now
Windows should revert back to showing file extensions by default. Most people know what EXE, MP3, JPEG, etc. means nowadays. And there's always a warning that pops up when you try to rename an extension. I can't think of a good reason to hide them.
@@iidxbarry You never really FIND the Linux user, they usually announce themselves (unlike Apple users who try to scream out what they own so people go "Whaaat?! Wooooow you must be like....rich or something!")
Last time I heard about de Guzman was, he now owns a phone repair shop somewhere in my country. He was gravely incriminated because of that virus, no one wanted to give him a job right after it blew up(mistrust, I suppose). People saw him as a thief (as opposed to how code junkies see him) and would constantly berate him as a direct result. He's like a failed Robin Hood of some sorts who went out of his way to live an honest life. --That's how I heard his story 3 years ago. I'm not sure how much of that is true.
No it's not stealing, it's for a THESIS. It's all for research and statistics don't mind me stealing your monthly pay leaving you homeless cause you can't pay the rent.
can we all just take a moment to appreciate the fact that nationsquid travelled back in time to 2000 and wasted a computer just to show us how this virus works?
I love that thesis proposal. Dude didn’t even *pretend* that it was just for theoretical research or to help raise security awareness. Just straight up “I want to steal people’s passwords”
supposedly, the point he was making was that internet access was a human right and no one should have to pay for it. so he designed a code that people could use to steal internet passwords from other people at no harm to them
Love how you took the time to include proper subtitles. I'm on the bus rn, no headphones, but I can still watch the video perfectly fine because the subtitles are there. This is also great for deaf people. It shows how much effort you put into your videos. Thank you.
Idk why but names like "ILOVEYOU" and "Melissa" with no other context just freak me out. Wouldnt be able to touch the email without feeling like I'm gonna be cursed.
and after that you have to plug the red wire into the socket to make sure the engine boots at launch. Wrap the green wire around it's coil that sits directly beside the A button. After you put the back shell on, place the battery in the slot. Screw the Vr26 Jeeper back up and press the reset button. If everything worked according to plan you're device should show a thumbs up sprite. Plug the HDMI port into a monitor and wait three seconds. If it boots up on TV your in the good side. If it doesn't boot in less then 5 seconds quickly unplug. This can severely damage your TV and possibly start a fire
The idea in the thesis _was_ illegal (stealing passwords to steal internet access.) The worm wasn't. However, the destruction of files on the target computer likely was. (In the US, CFAA very clearly makes everything about this illegal.)
I love how this guy literally has the calmest, most comforting voice ever, whilst casually downloading the worlds most deadly computer virus on his computer
He was most likely using a virtual machine so it wouldn't have mattered, plus the virus is old so it would've been detected if it somehow got onto his actual os.
Personal computers were relatively new technology for Filipinos at that time, and they did not expect that one individual could create such a massively destructive computer virus.
The virus gave millions of people hope for a short time that somebody actually loves them before destroying their entire existence... which is actually pretty close to what an actual relationship feels like.
Well, I certainly wouldn't open a LOVELETTER from some other dude, so the men had either to be gay and endlessly gullible to fall for a cheap trick like that. If you want to infect somebody else's computer, at least put some effort into the visuals, right?
@@Armor3d0ne Well once you open the file it sends the same message to all your contacts on your email. You might not open the male/female ones depending on your sexuality but unless you are completely antisocial you'd at least get one from a person you might find attractive. The virus became very popular in offices so once it spreads there are high chances you receive a message from that person you like in your office. Even if people wouldn't be interested they'd still probably click on the file because everyone loves getting attention and that's your first lesson in Psychology.
I like that the reason for all of this, is their teachers rejected their thesis and they wanted to prove something to them. Which results into a catastrophy, lmao.
I love how even though the icon is clearly not a text file, no one was tech literate enough back then to realise that. These days, people would be like "why does that text file look weird?"
It was the time when most people thought they could delete a program by deleting the shortcut. Or they sent a shortcut to someone and wondered why the other person couldn't open the file.
Never underestimate how clueless people still are about those things. Not too long ago, a co-worker in his mid-50s (smart guy who'd worked at the company for years) downloaded a malicious file from his work e-mail without a second thought. And it looked even more suspect than that "text" file icon.
@@ScepticGinger89 Funny I remember in 2001 putting all the games on a floppy. Except they were all just shortcuts. It worked tho and accomplished exactly what I was trying to do: Stop my brother from playing the games when I didn't want him to. He clicked on a shortcut on a floppy... except I removed the disk, so the floppy drive tried super hard to seek and then give up and ask to insert the disk. He later tried to give the games to a friend, he gave him my floppy disk with shortcuts xD
Apparently younger people now don't even know what *file directories* are. I saw an article about it -- around 2017, kids going into college started en masse having trouble finding their files. Like, tons of professors reporting this issue in all of their classes. They'd say "go to this file" and be met with blank stares. When you grow up with technology tailored to be as user-friendly as possible it's shocking what you don't learn.
@Vael There's a 100% chance you'll find those people in every comment like this around the internet. What's funnier is that they seem so dumbfounded when you give them a reality check that it's a joke.
This rings a bell. I think I remember getting one of these emails right after being warned that there was a virus going around disguised as a love letter and immediately deleting it. I was lucky.
I knew a lot about computers. By this time we threw away our computer and got an iMac. And if you remember, it was Y2K. So no, we knew so many information techs that said, if you see a email with iloveyou or exe file extension delete it don't open it. We still had AOL so they weren't going to allow a worm either.
Microsoft then topped their most stupid idea of all time with making Windows 10. Then to really solidify their asininity Microsoft forces as many software and hardware manufacturers planet wide to support only Windows 10. Microsoft steals the show forever more with hard coding Windows 10 to spy on you with literally no possible way or ways to ever turn off it's spyware operations. The in-OS buttons and options only give the appearance of you deactivating those Windows 10 spy features.
@@adamgray1753 you are literally spied ok by your phone, every app you use, and many other devices. Windows 10 is barely to blame here. It works perfectly fine.
I can't remember who did this, but a company once did a test where security ppl left usb drives around a company on purpose and they found that like 80% of employees that found the usb stick would go back into work and plug in the drive without thought.
Security companies still do this with its client's employees to educate them. When someone plugs the USB drive in, a specially crafted "virus" silently notifies the cyber guys through the net with the victim's IP address...
My teacher: Just clear your history! (If you didn't know, in IT aka a computer job, people say that when they want you to go away and they don't want to fix your problem)
Mall worms are extremely terrifying, I encountered one and lost my 2 children and my left arm. Dont go to the malls they have the mall worms inside the store.
Fun fact: In Deltarune, when you fight Virovirokin, who represents a computer virus in the computer world, she often says "I've got a love letter for you." referencing this.
I remember learning about the "Melissa" and "ILOVEYOU" viruses back in elementary and finding out that they came from my country. After the despair and embarrassment that such viruses came from us, it became sort of a running joke to figure out the motives for why the developers made them in the first place, the foremost being that the virus devs were jilted lovers and that they made the virus out of grief or something like that. The fact that this was born out of a thesis amuses me even more.
It said why in the thesis.. apparently surfing the internet was a far too expensive proposition for these guys that they wanted to steal other password to use it for free. Basically petty theft with malicious benefits.
There are reasons to be ashamed, and reasons to be proud of your nation, no matter which one. I’m an American who is ashamed that our country has been fractured by its citizens believing everything they see on social media and the news, but I focus on my pride in our ancestors’ bravery, work ethic and ingenuity.
@@guileteemgowitevryteeng1711 Well it was really expensive here in the phils. I could still remember back in late 90s to 2000 dial up internet here cost ~20$ for like 8 hours of use (2000s conversion rate), then like 1$ every 15 mins you go over that 8 hour monthly allowance, thats crazy expensive for college students at the time. I had to steal my high school acct details back then, but the ISP it traced it back to our landline number LOL, i didnt get in trouble tho.
I mean, not necessarily. You could use external media to boot into Linux, (or hell, even an MS-DOS floppy could probably do the job), backup any important data that wasn't destroyed, then nuke the partitions and reinstall the OS. Much easier than meticulously replacing a bunch of system files and trying to unfuck the registry manually. There would be some downtime, sure, but it would only take 1-2 hours depending on how much stuff had to be backed up.
I remember when this went through our company. One employee received this and accidentally opened it. He noticed what it was doing, unplugged his computer, and walked around manually warning people not to open these emails. One of our employees opened it TWICE, even after having received the warning. This last is one of the reasons it spread so far and wide: people are gullible.
This came out when I was in fourth grade and it's burned into my mind. I was in the computer lab with my counselor, wasn't exactly a good kid at the time but I was very fond of this lady. I'm looking at my counselor go through her emails and she stopped on this one, I could tell she didn't want to open it in front of and angled the monitor to where I couldn't see the screen. Before all hell broke loose I moved her hand away from the mouse and simply said "that's a virus." My counselor looked at me like God just spoke to her. I rolled over to the next computer and found a segment on the I Love You virus in Real Player (I didn't know what Google was yet), her jaw just dropped. I was actually on the verge of getting placed in alternative school, to this day I think warning her about that was partly why I got a second chance.
My grandmother got a computer in the late 90's when it became easy to get a dial-up connection. She liked to email her friends. It was an old Compaq with Windows 98 on it. Eventually she became an early adopter of broadband internet and had the fastest internet around. However, she was mostly computer illiterate and I had to help her all the time because she would download EVERYTHING and click on EVERY LINK. She had so many viruses all the time... I had a (very small) side business removing viruses from her elderly friend's computers because I was so good at getting rid of them on her computer. I miss her. She died in 2004. She was partly responsible for my getting a job in a PC repair shop several years after she died.
exactly my way. we first got an computer with a dial up connection in 1998. my parents did this whole shit and i always had to fix it. now i am working in it company. oh god my life was doomed from the early days...
I’m so sorry for your loss 😢 but I’m glad that you have a lot of great memories with her 💙! RIP to your grandmother, who trusted you a lot with removing viruses!
I actually used to get sort of excited when my computer got a virus, because they were so fascinating to read about. I got a really interesting one once that was supposed to overheat and kill your computer on a certain date. Fun!
I once got one that only replicated itself endlessly. It was on my gaming computer so I left it run for a time to see if it was going to do something else. I only deleted it because it got in a pendrive When I decided to delete it it was in the tens of thousands already
I've gotten 3 so far, one of them made us need to update our whole windows thing to get rid of it. The two regular ones were one that spammed be with popup ads, and one of those basic ones that tell you to download a thing to get rid of a virus. But the other one switched all my google searches to Yahoo! searches and would. not. stahp.
This statement shows you definitely weren't around in the 90s. The average computer user back then was a lot more computer savvy than today because everything has been made "idiot-proof". On Microsoft 3.0 and before you had to type in complete program names and full file names with extensions to get it to open, and you had to know which program worked with which type of file extension.
@@mateojames3231 he own it tbh, but honestly its still a hard job lmao, understanding phone motherboard's schemes are the most annoying thing to do and need many failures to get it right.
I remember going in to work that day, opening up my email, and seeing 50,000 emails in my inbox with the exact same Subject with no spaces “ILOVEYOU” and saying, “Yeah, I think I’m just going to close Outlook for awhile until whatever this is blows over.”
Your missing a massive part of the reason why this spread so easily. The file type was set up by default on most computers running Outlook to run or open .vbs files automatically. So if you downloaded that email and previewed it - The virus would then automatically execute. That’s what caused it to spread so widely so fast, and most company’s at this time had office with Outlook as their default Mail client. After this happened, Microsoft had to issue a patch to prevent the .vbs files from running automatically in Outlook.
Interesting. I was not aware of that detail or at least don't remember if I did. I heard of this virus after it had been exposed about a year after. I don't recall that auto run (we'll call that a bug) in outlook but that makes a lot of sense. The Outlook server I ran would've been patched already. I do however remember it being common practice to just assume a suspicious email was even dangerous to open so we always just said don't even open an email that looks suspicious. I guess that was why.
@@cornbredx im guessing if that was the case, the outlook bug was fixed quickly so someone couldnt just create a clone or similar worm of iloveyou and do the exact same thing
@@cornbredx The “bug” wasn’t on the server. Rather the client computers. The servers got bugged down because of the sheer volume of emails going through them. Think if 1 person had 50 people in their address book. Once the email was opened by say 10 people - Those 10 people would be sending the email to those in their address book. (Including the person who you opened the email from!!!) - Rinse and repeat… you can now see how mail servers where being affected by the sheer volume of emails (with the vbs file) were slowing or causing mail servers to fail. I can’t remember exactly which version of Outlook it affected. But I do know how it managed to travel so quickly (within hours) that it hit the world in a VERY short amount of time. I was working for a small company and managed to find the trigger and advise folks what to do for the small companies I supported and even removed the virus manually with minimal damage. This was before MS managed to advise and push out a day-0 patch. There was 2 client versions of Outlook back then. 1 which was an Outlook “lite” and the fully functioning Outlook that came with MS Office. Also a lot of people back then used Hotmail and Gmail with their Outlook client to access personal emails. Don’t think the vbs files ran automatically there on opening the email via web portal. But I do know they were slow to use as a result. Hope this helps to explain my knowledge and understanding regarding this event around this time!
Danooct1 was and still is one of my favorite RUclipsrs. Always glad to see that he gets some recognition of some of the work that he does and by so many people too! :)
I gotta say, I don't buy "convenience" as the reason why they made file extensions hidden by default. What's convenient about not knowing at a glance what file type you're working with?
I'd say it's rather inconvenient how a lot of windows default settings are just bad. File extensions, minimized task bar icons and a bunch of other defaults always baffle me.
Apple / Mac files hid extensions from the beginning. It was elitist - thinking "I don't need my OS to know what kind of file this is ... it JUST KNOWS, which is way better than stupid old Windows." Back then I was a mac user, and very much felt that way.
It's more convenient for network administrators. When they did this suddenly, as if by magic, you stopped getting issues reported with files not opening when people changed the name.
I'd say most governments would have had an interest in that. As well as people developing antivirus programs (to see if it they can account for it etc.)
I heard in another video that the actual theses was that the internet is too dangerous for the average person. So in order to prove his point, he wanted to create a software that steals passwords
In a sense they do tend to come less through emails, but more through social media that, at times have caused computers to end up in a botnet. There is something to be said for one of the most used operating systems: some of it's core components are not easily changed these days (at least not by having a decent knowledge about some of the backdoors and the inner workings of the files involved) compared to how easy it was to manipulate files back in the 95-98-2000 days (2000 already being a bit better for having been based on the NT core). The biggest problem now is when a malicious program is caught in the act of doing it's something it's not supposed to do, is the user clicking "Yes" for the thing (sometimes under the false name of a genuine program) requesting administrative privileges. Email programs back in the day in general had a default window pane setup that made the email open automatically when you clicked on it, which in some later viruses made the virus deploy right after you did that, not even requesting you to open an attachment. Some email clients definitely still do, but most of them now have checks in place for checking background behaviour. I'm more worried about someone screwing up something important on the communication side of things (think of the dirt stupid engineers who thought it was a good idea to link absolutely everything that's tied into Facebook to basically all datacenters of Facebook and have a route-change request go wrong and cause a near-global Facebook outage) or an important up and downlink between Europe and the US going down, forcing the internet to fallback to other connections due to it's self-learning protocols to look for a new feasible route. Yes, these protocols are supersmart, but experts are still terrified that as soon as those protocols might agree on a new connection (probably spanning a route all across the world to get to the other side of the world) the alternative, for not being designed to handle this load will suffer a failover state very quickly and the internet might suffer a cascade failure due to it's self-learning nature for discovering routes. (And then there's governments who, probably for wanting to have a service delivered cheap deicde to go for a foreign company who deals with the financial traffic of ATM machines and recently in my country suffered a connection problem towards specifically that country and we were left without ATM transactions whether through the payment terminals or ATM's themselves). I'm more worried about governments having someone repeatedly warning them that a decision might turn out catastrophic in case of a failure somewhere in the system unless going with a more expensive option and simply ignoring the warning signs and doing it anyway, because we've seen that system in action before: multiple people warned governments that they had lost control of the banks and that there was a dangerous money-game being played and it would only take 1 wrong gamble or transaction to set things in motion they would be even more incapable of controlling after banks spiralling out of control themselves already.
It was that easy in 2000. Security has improved a lot in the meantime and so have hackers. There is a reason we never had a worm this virulent ever since
Around two and a half decades ago the one half virus almost brought down the hospital I was an IT person at. Laid dormant and then destroyed all files and literally said “Dis is one half” when the pc booted. That one was brutal.
This takes me back to 2004 where my 7th grade friend created a "Black Hole" virus that completely rendered all of the schools pcs useless to the point the school spent tens of thousands on new pcs and hardware to prevent that from happening again.....
All the more reason for programming ethics to be taught in school before teen programmers hurt not only systems but also themselves due legal repercussions. Program responsibly.
Very interesting and informative video! Nowadays of course many of us would scoff at how naive these people were, but back then antiviruses weren't as common I suppose and not as many people were computer-savvy. There's still a fair number of elderly and older adults that struggle with said technology. I'm a "digital native" meaning I was born after the advent of the internet and grew up with it, so for me not clicking on suspicious files from mysterious strangers is a no-brainer, but back then like I said times were different. Not that I didn't manage to screw up my own computer a fair number of times and had to get my older brother or parents to fix it lol. Or rather my mother since my father was never that good with or as interested in computers. He was confused when my mother bought one, saying they were "the way of the future" but it turned out she was right lol. I'll never forget this one time I somehow managed to fuck up my computer to the point where all it displayed was a black screen with creepy green strings of numbers (binary, I suppose) like one of those hacker things. Dunno how on earth I managed that, had to be some virus I guess.
You can still get caught with your pants down, even today. All it takes is the right scammer and the right social engineering. You won't see it coming. You'll be a sheep walking down the grassy path, believing, needing to believe.
Be careful how sure you are. There's a line in a song "don't walk so tall..... before you crawl.... For every child... is thinking of something wild..."
I low-key panicked when he said "I'm going to be doing a demonstration of how it works". Computer viruses scare me on another level Edit: omg YES I KNOW you can't get a virus from a YT video calm your tits
Imagine in the morning that day, you have a fight with your wife about you always choose your work than her, and she threatened to divorce you. You went to work, depressed, thinking of ending it all but you still have to finish a work deadline or you will get fired. You just finished all the design jpegs you need to send just before the deadline, so you open your Outlook to prepare a draft. Suddenly you received an email from your wife with subject: ILOVEYOU.
Arguably the world's first (as compared to worst) computer virus was never intended to be harmful. It was a "Merry Christmas" message which was sent on the infant Internet and which contained instructions to find everyone in the receiver's address book and send a copy of itself (including the instructions) to everyone on that list. The problem was that it had no way of tracking where it had been, so it promptly got sent back and forth between multiple users and clogged up all of the email storage space as it multiplied out of control. The entire Internet (luckily consisting of only around a dozen universities at the time) had to be shut down and everyone's emails had to be manually cleared of the accidental virus before putting the systems back online. Naturally, the ability for an email to contain automatically-executing instructions was removed, however even these days email attachments can contain a program which automatically runs if you click on it. Don't open that "funny cat video" your "friend" sent you, because it's just as likely to be a virus which your friend never sent. (Adding a fake "from" email address to an email is trivially easy for people who distribute scams and malware)
I am thinking about dropping out of school to focus on my career as a star on RUclips. I already make a lot of money on RUclips. School bores me so much. I need more opinions and since I don't have any friends, I gotta ask you, mel
@@Cherrycreamsoda1 I'm pretty sure it would have been the 70's but I never bothered to memorise the exact date. The details are probably hanging around on the Internet somewhere, if you're interested. I think it was during the days of ARPANET or however that was spelled.
@@AxxLAfriku Don't, unless you have a far better reason than "I'm bored." Not having graduated will hurt your chances of getting any job. Instead, endure school while enriching your life by researching subjects of interest to you through the Internet and the still-useful-even-these-days public and/or school library. An income from YT can't be guaranteed for the rest of your life. Only talent and the qualifications to show you have it really count with employers, and being self-employed is super-hard to make work, even with both talent and knowledge.
they are just litterally curious students/teenagers at the time. they probably didnt imagine it would come to the point that its worldwide-and also they are unaware that they left their trail easy to find.
this is gonna sound bad but it's better to have been a couple of teens who had no ill intentions than say an evil organization who carefully crafted a plan to take over the computer world or further. At least after this laws were made and everyones security was up. It was bad but it could have been much much much worse
@@doejan8549 the whole purpose of the virus was to steal from others, it even said it in the thesis. These students knew exactly what they did and deserve jail.
I'm surprised. Having lived through those times I felt like blaster was a bigger deal. Blaster was a real wakeup call. Until then I think a lot of organisations just didn't take patching seriously. The idea that a worm could spread around your entire estate without needing a stupid user on every infected host was a total game changer.
The only way I could see him unintentionally releasing the virus would be if he accidentally launched it himself and it propagated itself through his email list
I remember getting a variant of this from a school friend via MSN Messenger as a kid. I had a request from him to send me a ‘photo’ with ended up replacing all of my files and eventually killing my hard drive. It was gutting as a kid but even more now as I lost a lot of photos and videos of a friend that since passed away.
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I will tell you one thing: today’s viruses are not so different from the old ones. The key feature is that the user has to take some action to start the virus. So watch where you click
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That act of editing the ILOVEYOU code and rebooting was basically the computer version of getting hit by a car, thinking you're immortal because you lived, and checking for other superpowers by taking a buzzsaw to your own crotch.
At first I thought NationSquid was some corporate type channel like WatchMojo but nah it’s this dude giving great info about stuff, rather than an “educational” channel, and not just an internet documentation channel.
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Mall-ware
2021😏
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Haha lol,
Mail-ware*
Stay aWARe of the virus
@@necnec478 Amagus virus? ඞ 🤯😏😱😳
“I love you, and that’s why I’m taking away your PC so that you get out of that room to touch some grass”
Yo rmabien te qu8ero se mi amigos
Holy shit the "Go Touch Grass" virus
@@FleischerJack
"Go Touch Grass" virus for Discord mods
@@miroslava9203 it’s disguised as genshin impact “art” to troll discord mods
Yeah
My father received this virus back in the day at the company he worked for at the time. Fortunately he didn't open it, but after other coworkers did and told him what it was, he saved a copy of the virus to a floppy disc and still has it in our house.
epic, did you send it to your friends?
@@amogoose2971 I think you could still make it work, but most OS would either block it or ask the user "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THIS?!"
@@Wqube Yeah you could even see that the version of Windows he was using in this video (while otherwise accurate to the ones targeted) had additional security measures that were presumably added to it later in order to prevent this sort of thing happening again
lol dont use it
The digital equivalent of the CDC keeping samples of small pox
Imagine a virus, that all it did, was invert your mouse scroll.
It would be a national crisis
New spot for most deadly computer virus.
Slightly underrated comment-
Nah thats just too brutal
Too brutal... But Imma turn around my mouse
I've worked in IT for 30 years and I remember the day someone opened this and infected every single .JPG file on the network of the 300 person six office company I worked for. I remember the NIMDA virus too, and my company was the first one to get infected. I worked from 8:00 AM to 2:30 AM that day. I will never forget it.
How do you know your company was the first one to get infected with the NIMDA virus?
nice bro kaisa tha ye virus source code dede😎😎
Good for you. IT battlegrounds are things of horror.
Onel De Guzman is now an owner of a cellphone repair shop here in the Philippines.
tell him hes talented. he just misused it.
If the slogan for the company “I love you” I’m out
That's kind of a downgrade from such notoriety. Could have used those talents to make millions of dollars. But at least he's got an honest way of living now
@@grovePS3 script kiddie?.. why her I love you virus spread around the world and it cost a lot of damage
@@kiyanavante3694 cuz people ignorance and curiosity
The cause of the spread was that people are naive believing someone actually loves them.
smh, love really ruins everything. we never learn
@@sayhowling That's why the Jedi code (probably inspired by the abstinence of Catholic Priests and similar)
Strictly prohibits it.
@@sorryineedwifi903 Same here m8
@@Littlefighter1911 I am not a virgin. I am a Jedi
Some sort of social engineering I guess 🤔
Windows should revert back to showing file extensions by default. Most people know what EXE, MP3, JPEG, etc. means nowadays. And there's always a warning that pops up when you try to rename an extension. I can't think of a good reason to hide them.
Agreed, turning on file extensions is always one of the first things I do when I install windows
Better solution, don't use Windows😎
I don't use Arch btw
@@niceowl i found the linux user
You can still change that back, and the setting follows you to new machines.
@@iidxbarry You never really FIND the Linux user, they usually announce themselves (unlike Apple users who try to scream out what they own so people go "Whaaat?! Wooooow you must be like....rich or something!")
Last time I heard about de Guzman was, he now owns a phone repair shop somewhere in my country. He was gravely incriminated because of that virus, no one wanted to give him a job right after it blew up(mistrust, I suppose). People saw him as a thief (as opposed to how code junkies see him) and would constantly berate him as a direct result. He's like a failed Robin Hood of some sorts who went out of his way to live an honest life.
--That's how I heard his story 3 years ago. I'm not sure how much of that is true.
Lmao the things that were written on his thesis
"This is illegal"
"We do not produce B U R G L A R S"
Yea, right
*Guzman:* "How can I break a law that hasn't been invented yet?"
*Teacher:* [visible confusion]
burgers
@@t-rilz borgir !
No it's not stealing, it's for a THESIS.
It's all for research and statistics don't mind me stealing your monthly pay leaving you homeless cause you can't pay the rent.
can we all just take a moment to appreciate the fact that nationsquid travelled back in time to 2000 and wasted a computer just to show us how this virus works?
Thank you so much for watching! Currently fixing up my flux capacitor for my next video! :)
I assume he ran it virtually
@@mikeknight42 you couldn’t run it “virtually” back then, technology wasn’t far enough 😐
@@mikeknight42 how can you run virtually? You can't put yourself inside a computer to run
@@TheZombieTurkey virtual machine
Imagine you get the virus, it sends itself to your crush, and make the first steps for you and then you live happily ever after and have many kids.
*unlocked: good ending*
@@Noelleinnit completed: dream
Task failed succesfully.
@@pantostado9396 LOL
@Anime Sayian hello
I love that thesis proposal. Dude didn’t even *pretend* that it was just for theoretical research or to help raise security awareness. Just straight up “I want to steal people’s passwords”
supposedly, the point he was making was that internet access was a human right and no one should have to pay for it. so he designed a code that people could use to steal internet passwords from other people at no harm to them
*"Melissa"* and *"I love you"* are some of the creepiest possible names for files and why would you ever open them?
@Planet 9X I know what happened to that cat. I'm not gonna make the same mistakes they did.
@Planet 9X huh wdym, I would NEVER open an unknown file....... oooh what's this? **click click**
Bruh if i got that virus i would look at it just to block it or something
if you were already alive on that time period.. maybe you will know the answers...
Its early 2000 internet is not so big in that time. Probably people dont car to much about virus or malicious text
Love how you took the time to include proper subtitles. I'm on the bus rn, no headphones, but I can still watch the video perfectly fine because the subtitles are there. This is also great for deaf people. It shows how much effort you put into your videos. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your support! I have more content coming your way soon. :)
@@nationsquid Great to hear. Keep up the good work.
Yeah im really glad for this cause it means I can listen along without having to skip back cause I couldnt understand something
@@johnnytelemundo jesus man
@@johnnytelemundo you doing okay?
Idk why but names like "ILOVEYOU" and "Melissa" with no other context just freak me out. Wouldnt be able to touch the email without feeling like I'm gonna be cursed.
Ikr
Lol my friends name is Melissa but with only one s
Yeah same idk why
My name is Melissa tho👁👄👁
RIGHTT
This man is impressive. He traveled 20 years back in time and brought youtube with him
umm its called a virtual machine lol
Progressbar95 reference😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 1:41
Umm, it's a joke@@Atixtasy
Umm are you serious?
@@Atixtasy r/woosh
Professor: "This is ILLEGAL!"
Narrator: "It was, in fact, not"
and after that you have to plug the red wire into the socket to make sure the engine boots at launch. Wrap the green wire around it's coil that sits directly beside the A button. After you put the back shell on, place the battery in the slot. Screw the Vr26 Jeeper back up and press the reset button. If everything worked according to plan you're device should show a thumbs up sprite. Plug the HDMI port into a monitor and wait three seconds. If it boots up on TV your in the good side. If it doesn't boot in less then 5 seconds quickly unplug. This can severely damage your TV and possibly start a fire
@@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 thank you I needed this
The idea in the thesis _was_ illegal (stealing passwords to steal internet access.) The worm wasn't. However, the destruction of files on the target computer likely was. (In the US, CFAA very clearly makes everything about this illegal.)
@@pattyryopotybuttongamer3063 What?
@@jfbeam it wasnt illgeal back then.
Why is this getting recommended to me around Valentines day
Fax
"love"
Truueee
Its cuz the keyword "Love"
On Valentines day.
I'm single.
RIP.
I love how this guy literally has the calmest, most comforting voice ever, whilst casually downloading the worlds most deadly computer virus on his computer
So true
well i mean, he's using windows 2000. so he was screwed from the start
He sounds like a voice synthesizer tbh
@@Medytacjusz he sounds even more like the mediocre sam o nella
He was most likely using a virtual machine so it wouldn't have mattered, plus the virus is old so it would've been detected if it somehow got onto his actual os.
imagine creating such a destructive worm that your countries government adds new laws
Personal computers were relatively new technology for Filipinos at that time, and they did not expect that one individual could create such a massively destructive computer virus.
The virus gave millions of people hope for a short time that somebody actually loves them before destroying their entire existence... which is actually pretty close to what an actual relationship feels like.
Yes grandma
Whom hurt you
That’s one way to attack the western world, make them feel loved
Well, I certainly wouldn't open a LOVELETTER from some other dude, so the men had either to be gay and endlessly gullible to fall for a cheap trick like that. If you want to infect somebody else's computer, at least put some effort into the visuals, right?
@@Armor3d0ne Well once you open the file it sends the same message to all your contacts on your email. You might not open the male/female ones depending on your sexuality but unless you are completely antisocial you'd at least get one from a person you might find attractive. The virus became very popular in offices so once it spreads there are high chances you receive a message from that person you like in your office. Even if people wouldn't be interested they'd still probably click on the file because everyone loves getting attention and that's your first lesson in Psychology.
Forget 20 billion dollars, the important thing is that it spread love all over the world 🥰
THIS COMMENT IS SO UNDERRATED 😭😭😭
@@sadnnt Yeah
So if you ever get kidnapped (hopefully you dont) Your just gonna hug the kidnapper-....
shows you how pathetic people are. opening that crap. haha
Yeah! What's the price of 20 billion dollars when love is priceless? 🥰💘
"this is illegal" written on his paper about stealing passwords 😂😂😂
Got away scott free, showed that professor
The best part in the video 😂
@@tysonbell3524 lol
"we do not produce burglars"
@@igopsychowheneverwendysing5984 LMAO
"The virus originated from the Philippines"
**sheds a tear** I'm so damn proud of my country
Hell nawww💀💀💀💀
Lol makes sense since most internet scammers come from there as well.
Ego boosted
@@JebusMatoi indiA *intensifies*
@@JebusMatoi 🇳🇪 *hold my drink*
I like that the reason for all of this, is their teachers rejected their thesis and they wanted to prove something to them. Which results into a catastrophy, lmao.
reminds of hitler failing art school
@@numbers93
Onel de Guzman 🤝 Adolf Hitler
Both rejected
Well he did prove something lmao
Sounds like the origin story of future supervillain.
20 billion dollar mistake by a teacher.... instead of saying anything positive lmfao failing them
I love how even though the icon is clearly not a text file, no one was tech literate enough back then to realise that. These days, people would be like "why does that text file look weird?"
It was the time when most people thought they could delete a program by deleting the shortcut. Or they sent a shortcut to someone and wondered why the other person couldn't open the file.
Never underestimate how clueless people still are about those things. Not too long ago, a co-worker in his mid-50s (smart guy who'd worked at the company for years) downloaded a malicious file from his work e-mail without a second thought. And it looked even more suspect than that "text" file icon.
That's why employees are considered to be the biggest threat in cybersecurity.
@@ScepticGinger89 Funny I remember in 2001 putting all the games on a floppy. Except they were all just shortcuts. It worked tho and accomplished exactly what I was trying to do: Stop my brother from playing the games when I didn't want him to. He clicked on a shortcut on a floppy... except I removed the disk, so the floppy drive tried super hard to seek and then give up and ask to insert the disk. He later tried to give the games to a friend, he gave him my floppy disk with shortcuts xD
Apparently younger people now don't even know what *file directories* are. I saw an article about it -- around 2017, kids going into college started en masse having trouble finding their files. Like, tons of professors reporting this issue in all of their classes. They'd say "go to this file" and be met with blank stares. When you grow up with technology tailored to be as user-friendly as possible it's shocking what you don't learn.
Respect to this dude for making this in 2000 for a vid he'd do in 20 years.
@@crypticutopia7228 you cheeky madman
Nope it was really created in 2000s,it 's just this 2020 the truth was reveal
@@crypticutopia7228 You must be fun at parties
@Vael There's a 100% chance you'll find those people in every comment like this around the internet. What's funnier is that they seem so dumbfounded when you give them a reality check that it's a joke.
@@crypticutopia7228 r/wooooooosh
This rings a bell. I think I remember getting one of these emails right after being warned that there was a virus going around disguised as a love letter and immediately deleting it. I was lucky.
I knew a lot about computers. By this time we threw away our computer and got an iMac. And if you remember, it was Y2K. So no, we knew so many information techs that said, if you see a email with iloveyou or exe file extension delete it don't open it. We still had AOL so they weren't going to allow a worm either.
"kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me"
So poetic. Just so much passion in that message, how could anyone pass it up?
LOVELETTER
@DON'T LMAOOO WHY YOU EVERYWHERE?? Shut up.
@@monodragon LOVELETTER
@@thefunkiestswag LOVELETTER
Especially when you're getting it from like 10 different people.
Microsoft's most stupid idea of all times is to hide the file extension by default.
Microsoft then topped their most stupid idea of all time with making Windows 10. Then to really solidify their asininity Microsoft forces as many software and hardware manufacturers planet wide to support only Windows 10. Microsoft steals the show forever more with hard coding Windows 10 to spy on you with literally no possible way or ways to ever turn off it's spyware operations. The in-OS buttons and options only give the appearance of you deactivating those Windows 10 spy features.
@@adamgray1753 Microsoft is like a plague that poisons everything it touches, absorbing every opponent they target. I'm glad to be a Linux user now
@ Man, Bill Gates really screwed him over
@@adamgray1753 to get away from all of that, all you gotta do is install the ameliorated version of windows 10 called Windows 10 AME
@@adamgray1753 you are literally spied ok by your phone, every app you use, and many other devices. Windows 10 is barely to blame here. It works perfectly fine.
I can't remember who did this, but a company once did a test where security ppl left usb drives around a company on purpose and they found that like 80% of employees that found the usb stick would go back into work and plug in the drive without thought.
Gotta see if it holds secret treasure files
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Security companies still do this with its client's employees to educate them. When someone plugs the USB drive in, a specially crafted "virus" silently notifies the cyber guys through the net with the victim's IP address...
I… i would do that :(
I would take and format the drive on someone else’s computer, and keep it.
I remember how scary this was at the time... :( Now it seems relatively tame compared to some of the ransomware you see these days.
Ransomware is tame compared to shit like Pegasus.
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I have no idea how I got here, but I have to say, your voice is really calming.
Thank you! I'm glad you're here! I have more content coming soon. :)
@@nationsquid I subscribed :D
I've subscribed too.
@@marcoaureliofernandezreyes1413 cool
Me to
Playing on human emotions, one of the greatest way to spread a virus.
Haha std funny
Yeah, that’s exactly how the government are doing their little social experiment pandemic rn.
@@CaptainCoolzCT- Please tell me your joking.
@@CaptainCoolzCT- Go do your research first kiddo.
@@CaptainCoolzCT- go touch grass
Legend has it, Guzman is still waiting on someone to say "ILOVEYOUTOO".
Lolll
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Lol
Lol
Whenever I get a suspicious email, I open it on a virtual computer to check its credibility
My teacher: just press control alt delete you’ll be alright
Teacher: I have the biggest brain.
Programmers: am I a joke to you?
more like "programming teacher"
@@kirby363 YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA PRO TEACHER
My teacher: Just clear your history! (If you didn't know, in IT aka a computer job, people say that when they want you to go away and they don't want to fix your problem)
Worst thing is she acts like she's a computer genius
That’s why I don’t go shopping, I too am afraid of the *”mall worm.”*
@S.t.a.r.r.y Are you confused or in solemn agreement lol
😂
Ah, yes the mall worm
@S.t.a.r.r.y nice lmao
Mall worms are extremely terrifying, I encountered one and lost my 2 children and my left arm. Dont go to the malls they have the mall worms inside the store.
When I was kid at the age of MS-DOS, I used to imagine a virus that spins the HDD disc so fast that it comes out killing the user.
Maybe a CD or FDD would come out easier. Let's call it the Ripper Disc Virus.
OMFG! THAT IS ADORABLE!!!
@@jack5611 what
😂🤣
SAW virus
Your channel along with ColdFusion and Moon is one of the best for short documentaries. You deserve more subscribers.
Fun fact: In Deltarune, when you fight Virovirokin, who represents a computer virus in the computer world, she often says "I've got a love letter for you." referencing this.
Sick 🔥
That's cool
i knew this!
I only know about this because of deltarune
Thats actually kool
I remember learning about the "Melissa" and "ILOVEYOU" viruses back in elementary and finding out that they came from my country. After the despair and embarrassment that such viruses came from us, it became sort of a running joke to figure out the motives for why the developers made them in the first place, the foremost being that the virus devs were jilted lovers and that they made the virus out of grief or something like that.
The fact that this was born out of a thesis amuses me even more.
the ILOVEYOU virus is from Philippines.
It said why in the thesis.. apparently surfing the internet was a far too expensive proposition for these guys that they wanted to steal other password to use it for free. Basically petty theft with malicious benefits.
There are reasons to be ashamed, and reasons to be proud of your nation, no matter which one.
I’m an American who is ashamed that our country has been fractured by its citizens believing everything they see on social media and the news, but I focus on my pride in our ancestors’ bravery, work ethic and ingenuity.
our nations pride
@@guileteemgowitevryteeng1711 Well it was really expensive here in the phils. I could still remember back in late 90s to 2000 dial up internet here cost ~20$ for like 8 hours of use (2000s conversion rate), then like 1$ every 15 mins you go over that 8 hour monthly allowance, thats crazy expensive for college students at the time. I had to steal my high school acct details back then, but the ISP it traced it back to our landline number LOL, i didnt get in trouble tho.
"That's too bad. This is not going to be a cheap fix." Understatement of the year 2000.
Imagine if you heard that voice when you get the BSOD
@@trulymeparker Spoken by Dennis Nedry
NUH-UH-UH
The entire planet said that again 20 years later
I mean, not necessarily. You could use external media to boot into Linux, (or hell, even an MS-DOS floppy could probably do the job), backup any important data that wasn't destroyed, then nuke the partitions and reinstall the OS. Much easier than meticulously replacing a bunch of system files and trying to unfuck the registry manually. There would be some downtime, sure, but it would only take 1-2 hours depending on how much stuff had to be backed up.
@@PS3DJ09 oh no 💀
I remember when this went through our company. One employee received this and accidentally opened it. He noticed what it was doing, unplugged his computer, and walked around manually warning people not to open these emails. One of our employees opened it TWICE, even after having received the warning.
This last is one of the reasons it spread so far and wide: people are gullible.
This came out when I was in fourth grade and it's burned into my mind. I was in the computer lab with my counselor, wasn't exactly a good kid at the time but I was very fond of this lady. I'm looking at my counselor go through her emails and she stopped on this one, I could tell she didn't want to open it in front of and angled the monitor to where I couldn't see the screen. Before all hell broke loose I moved her hand away from the mouse and simply said "that's a virus." My counselor looked at me like God just spoke to her. I rolled over to the next computer and found a segment on the I Love You virus in Real Player (I didn't know what Google was yet), her jaw just dropped. I was actually on the verge of getting placed in alternative school, to this day I think warning her about that was partly why I got a second chance.
What a redemption story.
Bro that's rad
And then the entire school clapped
@@ebusive what makes you think this story is fake??
In fourth grade, hmm?
seems legit.
I cracked up seeing the "" comment in the source code.
The first sign it was created by a student lol
I mean same
My grandmother got a computer in the late 90's when it became easy to get a dial-up connection. She liked to email her friends. It was an old Compaq with Windows 98 on it. Eventually she became an early adopter of broadband internet and had the fastest internet around. However, she was mostly computer illiterate and I had to help her all the time because she would download EVERYTHING and click on EVERY LINK. She had so many viruses all the time... I had a (very small) side business removing viruses from her elderly friend's computers because I was so good at getting rid of them on her computer.
I miss her. She died in 2004. She was partly responsible for my getting a job in a PC repair shop several years after she died.
Big love to your memories of her ❣️ thank you for sharing that
exactly my way. we first got an computer with a dial up connection in 1998. my parents did this whole shit and i always had to fix it. now i am working in it company. oh god my life was doomed from the early days...
I’m so sorry for your loss 😢 but I’m glad that you have a lot of great memories with her 💙! RIP to your grandmother, who trusted you a lot with removing viruses!
@@SheWolf_Warrior dont you know that grandparents die from time to time? its because they are old. so no reason to be worried or loose ones mind.
I actually used to get sort of excited when my computer got a virus, because they were so fascinating to read about. I got a really interesting one once that was supposed to overheat and kill your computer on a certain date. Fun!
Sameee! It was so thrilling!
That does seem a lot more interesting compared to the viruses I keep getting that just disabled Chrome and installed a fake McAfee program
@@vampyroteumint McAfee IS fakery, through n through.
I once got one that only replicated itself endlessly. It was on my gaming computer so I left it run for a time to see if it was going to do something else. I only deleted it because it got in a pendrive
When I decided to delete it it was in the tens of thousands already
I've gotten 3 so far, one of them made us need to update our whole windows thing to get rid of it.
The two regular ones were one that spammed be with popup ads, and one of those basic ones that tell you to download a thing to get rid of a virus. But the other one switched all my google searches to Yahoo! searches and would. not. stahp.
Why are we all watching this right now
Wtf 1 minute ago
I guess I wasn't the only one
Lol
Loneliness
Bruh wtf
If someone was willing to download a “love letter” from a random sender I can promise you they don’t even know what a file extension is.
Not a random sender, it’s someone in your contact list
@@stuffedbrains Even worse I have minimal contacts and no one loves me.
@@Username_Invalid my guy boutta get a love letter from his mom
@@diffusewizard7622
Bruhh...
This statement shows you definitely weren't around in the 90s. The average computer user back then was a lot more computer savvy than today because everything has been made "idiot-proof". On Microsoft 3.0 and before you had to type in complete program names and full file names with extensions to get it to open, and you had to know which program worked with which type of file extension.
Guzman had an entire villain backstory and everything. If anyone was going to destroy the world's computers, it was gonna be him
He was found afterwards 20 years later working in a Phone repair shop.
@@mateojames3231 he own it tbh, but honestly its still a hard job lmao, understanding phone motherboard's schemes are the most annoying thing to do and need many failures to get it right.
@@mateojames3231 he owns the phone repair shop in a mall in the Philippines
fuck y2k we gotta look out for college students man
@@mateojames3231 It’s hilarious, somebody believe he’s working for microsoft.
imagine getting that love letter from your dad... awkward, delete, never discuss again....
I remember going in to work that day, opening up my email, and seeing 50,000 emails in my inbox with the exact same Subject with no spaces “ILOVEYOU” and saying, “Yeah, I think I’m just going to close Outlook for awhile until whatever this is blows over.”
imagine the only love letter you ever got is a virus
Underrated comment
Hey man I'll take what I can get, that maleware be getting something other then monetary value tonight I'll tell you that much
I didn't even get the virus.
💀@@freshavacodo555
bretrayed by your crush 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔😔😔😔😔
Your missing a massive part of the reason why this spread so easily.
The file type was set up by default on most computers running Outlook to run or open .vbs files automatically. So if you downloaded that email and previewed it - The virus would then automatically execute. That’s what caused it to spread so widely so fast, and most company’s at this time had office with Outlook as their default Mail client.
After this happened, Microsoft had to issue a patch to prevent the .vbs files from running automatically in Outlook.
OK, that actually makes way more sense than "they all opened the extension." Thanks for the detail.
Interesting. I was not aware of that detail or at least don't remember if I did. I heard of this virus after it had been exposed about a year after. I don't recall that auto run (we'll call that a bug) in outlook but that makes a lot of sense. The Outlook server I ran would've been patched already.
I do however remember it being common practice to just assume a suspicious email was even dangerous to open so we always just said don't even open an email that looks suspicious. I guess that was why.
@@cornbredx im guessing if that was the case, the outlook bug was fixed quickly so someone couldnt just create a clone or similar worm of iloveyou and do the exact same thing
@@cornbredx The “bug” wasn’t on the server. Rather the client computers. The servers got bugged down because of the sheer volume of emails going through them.
Think if 1 person had 50 people in their address book. Once the email was opened by say 10 people - Those 10 people would be sending the email to those in their address book. (Including the person who you opened the email from!!!) - Rinse and repeat… you can now see how mail servers where being affected by the sheer volume of emails (with the vbs file) were slowing or causing mail servers to fail.
I can’t remember exactly which version of Outlook it affected. But I do know how it managed to travel so quickly (within hours) that it hit the world in a VERY short amount of time. I was working for a small company and managed to find the trigger and advise folks what to do for the small companies I supported and even removed the virus manually with minimal damage. This was before MS managed to advise and push out a day-0 patch.
There was 2 client versions of Outlook back then. 1 which was an Outlook “lite” and the fully functioning Outlook that came with MS Office.
Also a lot of people back then used Hotmail and Gmail with their Outlook client to access personal emails. Don’t think the vbs files ran automatically there on opening the email via web portal. But I do know they were slow to use as a result.
Hope this helps to explain my knowledge and understanding regarding this event around this time!
Danooct1 was and still is one of my favorite RUclipsrs. Always glad to see that he gets some recognition of some of the work that he does and by so many people too! :)
This dude must be like “oops must’ve accidentally pressed send”
Actually, he just needs to double click the file lol
@@bonaaq86 then he can get the passwords he got on his pc
I feel like if thousands of people in my office building got an email saying "I love you" I wouldn't feel special and ignore it
Um yeah, the world is a lot different now tho?
@@Generationalwealth94 it's a joke?
@@mattnayr came off as a mere statement, not as a joke.
@@Generationalwealth94 ok...
Lol yeah
Rejected because "this is illegal!" and "we do not produce burglars!" is such a supervillain type backstory oml
I gotta say, I don't buy "convenience" as the reason why they made file extensions hidden by default. What's convenient about not knowing at a glance what file type you're working with?
I'd say it's rather inconvenient how a lot of windows default settings are just bad.
File extensions, minimized task bar icons and a bunch of other defaults always baffle me.
I have been wondering the same thing for 26 years. What benefit could it possibly offer?
Apple / Mac files hid extensions from the beginning. It was elitist - thinking "I don't need my OS to know what kind of file this is ... it JUST KNOWS, which is way better than stupid old Windows." Back then I was a mac user, and very much felt that way.
I think "aesthetics" is probably the more correct term.
It's more convenient for network administrators. When they did this suddenly, as if by magic, you stopped getting issues reported with files not opening when people changed the name.
who in the right mind blatantly writing about "stealing user password" for their thesis?
The year 2000 was a very different year :D
I want to know who rejected it and what they expected him to do afterward
I'd say most governments would have had an interest in that. As well as people developing antivirus programs (to see if it they can account for it etc.)
I heard in another video that the actual theses was that the internet is too dangerous for the average person. So in order to prove his point, he wanted to create a software that steals passwords
You have to fully understand how something is done before you can effectively prevent it.
There’s something terrifying about how easy creating a virus this catastrophic is ... that and how we’re all computer-dependant now
In a sense they do tend to come less through emails, but more through social media that, at times have caused computers to end up in a botnet. There is something to be said for one of the most used operating systems: some of it's core components are not easily changed these days (at least not by having a decent knowledge about some of the backdoors and the inner workings of the files involved) compared to how easy it was to manipulate files back in the 95-98-2000 days (2000 already being a bit better for having been based on the NT core).
The biggest problem now is when a malicious program is caught in the act of doing it's something it's not supposed to do, is the user clicking "Yes" for the thing (sometimes under the false name of a genuine program) requesting administrative privileges.
Email programs back in the day in general had a default window pane setup that made the email open automatically when you clicked on it, which in some later viruses made the virus deploy right after you did that, not even requesting you to open an attachment.
Some email clients definitely still do, but most of them now have checks in place for checking background behaviour.
I'm more worried about someone screwing up something important on the communication side of things (think of the dirt stupid engineers who thought it was a good idea to link absolutely everything that's tied into Facebook to basically all datacenters of Facebook and have a route-change request go wrong and cause a near-global Facebook outage) or an important up and downlink between Europe and the US going down, forcing the internet to fallback to other connections due to it's self-learning protocols to look for a new feasible route.
Yes, these protocols are supersmart, but experts are still terrified that as soon as those protocols might agree on a new connection (probably spanning a route all across the world to get to the other side of the world) the alternative, for not being designed to handle this load will suffer a failover state very quickly and the internet might suffer a cascade failure due to it's self-learning nature for discovering routes.
(And then there's governments who, probably for wanting to have a service delivered cheap deicde to go for a foreign company who deals with the financial traffic of ATM machines and recently in my country suffered a connection problem towards specifically that country and we were left without ATM transactions whether through the payment terminals or ATM's themselves).
I'm more worried about governments having someone repeatedly warning them that a decision might turn out catastrophic in case of a failure somewhere in the system unless going with a more expensive option and simply ignoring the warning signs and doing it anyway, because we've seen that system in action before: multiple people warned governments that they had lost control of the banks and that there was a dangerous money-game being played and it would only take 1 wrong gamble or transaction to set things in motion they would be even more incapable of controlling after banks spiralling out of control themselves already.
It was that easy in 2000. Security has improved a lot in the meantime and so have hackers. There is a reason we never had a worm this virulent ever since
viruses are pretty much dead, we're more worried about things like ransomware.
Easy is it now since it was shared and analyzed and studied but it was not easy back then to think and create something like this.
Lies again? Cobra Viper Love Letters
Around two and a half decades ago the one half virus almost brought down the hospital I was an IT person at. Laid dormant and then destroyed all files and literally said “Dis is one half” when the pc booted. That one was brutal.
Achievement unlocked: my teacher showed this in class
That's awsome!! I finally fit in with all the cool kids at school!
@@nationsquid hOw ya doin fello kids
@@ConfusedOxygen noice fella AdUlt
which class
great teacher shsusizjiekskziskskx
This takes me back to 2004 where my 7th grade friend created a "Black Hole" virus that completely rendered all of the schools pcs useless to the point the school spent tens of thousands on new pcs and hardware to prevent that from happening again.....
Damn. And I thought I hated school.
Your friend single handedly forced your school to upgrade their setup, nice.
Bruh... That's awesome.
Mind telling me how this was done? Asking for a friend
All the more reason for programming ethics to be taught in school before teen programmers hurt not only systems but also themselves due legal repercussions. Program responsibly.
Very interesting and informative video! Nowadays of course many of us would scoff at how naive these people were, but back then antiviruses weren't as common I suppose and not as many people were computer-savvy. There's still a fair number of elderly and older adults that struggle with said technology. I'm a "digital native" meaning I was born after the advent of the internet and grew up with it, so for me not clicking on suspicious files from mysterious strangers is a no-brainer, but back then like I said times were different. Not that I didn't manage to screw up my own computer a fair number of times and had to get my older brother or parents to fix it lol. Or rather my mother since my father was never that good with or as interested in computers. He was confused when my mother bought one, saying they were "the way of the future" but it turned out she was right lol. I'll never forget this one time I somehow managed to fuck up my computer to the point where all it displayed was a black screen with creepy green strings of numbers (binary, I suppose) like one of those hacker things. Dunno how on earth I managed that, had to be some virus I guess.
You can still get caught with your pants down, even today. All it takes is the right scammer and the right social engineering. You won't see it coming. You'll be a sheep walking down the grassy path, believing, needing to believe.
Be careful how sure you are. There's a line in a song "don't walk so tall..... before you crawl.... For every child... is thinking of something wild..."
I low-key panicked when he said "I'm going to be doing a demonstration of how it works". Computer viruses scare me on another level
Edit: omg YES I KNOW you can't get a virus from a YT video calm your tits
@Bender Bending Rodriguez NO SHIT SHERLOCK
@Bender Bending Rodriguez "yt videos cant five you viruses" no shit Sherlock
@Bender Bending Rodriguez I panicked for him also just a reaction I'm not a dummy
Computer viruses scare me too. I hate the idea of corrupted technology, it's really unsettling for some reason.
How the fuck does a computer virus scare you
Imagine in the morning that day, you have a fight with your wife about you always choose your work than her, and she threatened to divorce you. You went to work, depressed, thinking of ending it all but you still have to finish a work deadline or you will get fired. You just finished all the design jpegs you need to send just before the deadline, so you open your Outlook to prepare a draft. Suddenly you received an email from your wife with subject: ILOVEYOU.
this is pretty specific but ok
damn so specific, u good bro??🤒
Hello? Are you ok?
Dude how do u even come up with this lmfao
It’s just a story dudes
Arguably the world's first (as compared to worst) computer virus was never intended to be harmful. It was a "Merry Christmas" message which was sent on the infant Internet and which contained instructions to find everyone in the receiver's address book and send a copy of itself (including the instructions) to everyone on that list.
The problem was that it had no way of tracking where it had been, so it promptly got sent back and forth between multiple users and clogged up all of the email storage space as it multiplied out of control. The entire Internet (luckily consisting of only around a dozen universities at the time) had to be shut down and everyone's emails had to be manually cleared of the accidental virus before putting the systems back online.
Naturally, the ability for an email to contain automatically-executing instructions was removed, however even these days email attachments can contain a program which automatically runs if you click on it. Don't open that "funny cat video" your "friend" sent you, because it's just as likely to be a virus which your friend never sent. (Adding a fake "from" email address to an email is trivially easy for people who distribute scams and malware)
That's interesting... when would that have been? The 70s or the 80s?
I am thinking about dropping out of school to focus on my career as a star on RUclips. I already make a lot of money on RUclips. School bores me so much. I need more opinions and since I don't have any friends, I gotta ask you, mel
@@Cherrycreamsoda1 I'm pretty sure it would have been the 70's but I never bothered to memorise the exact date. The details are probably hanging around on the Internet somewhere, if you're interested. I think it was during the days of ARPANET or however that was spelled.
Destroying the internet, the gift that keeps on giving!
@@AxxLAfriku Don't, unless you have a far better reason than "I'm bored." Not having graduated will hurt your chances of getting any job. Instead, endure school while enriching your life by researching subjects of interest to you through the Internet and the still-useful-even-these-days public and/or school library.
An income from YT can't be guaranteed for the rest of your life. Only talent and the qualifications to show you have it really count with employers, and being self-employed is super-hard to make work, even with both talent and knowledge.
I was immediately suspicious when I got the email... the people that loved me didn't own a computer.
Piece of advice: don’t hide file extensions. It can help protect you.
A bit late for that party
Piece of advice: don't use Windows
@@Speed4Runs sir, some of us have jobs in IT
@@texassmith2582 yeah, I'm one of you
Hahaha
The most hilarious part of this is that the guy who made the virus literally got charged with nothing at court and was just simply free after all this
@BlazingRed they were hired by CIA to work on bugs and software security
they are just litterally curious students/teenagers at the time. they probably didnt imagine it would come to the point that its worldwide-and also they are unaware that they left their trail easy to find.
this is gonna sound bad but it's better to have been a couple of teens who had no ill intentions than say an evil organization who carefully crafted a plan to take over the computer world or further.
At least after this laws were made and everyones security was up. It was bad but it could have been much much much worse
@@doejan8549 I think they just made it but other guys started to send it out I’m pretty sure
@@doejan8549 the whole purpose of the virus was to steal from others, it even said it in the thesis. These students knew exactly what they did and deserve jail.
I love the "this is illegal" note on his thesis.
"we do not make Burglars!"
I'm surprised. Having lived through those times I felt like blaster was a bigger deal. Blaster was a real wakeup call. Until then I think a lot of organisations just didn't take patching seriously. The idea that a worm could spread around your entire estate without needing a stupid user on every infected host was a total game changer.
I Love You Virus: I’m the most powerful virus in the world!
Lil bro: Hold my free minecraft
LMAOO😂😂
PAHAHAJA
Lmaooooooo
Justin Beiber: Hold my cam
LOL
May 5, 2000: the real Revenge of the Fifth.
Btw what that jole mean?
@@Mi_tala Have you seen Star Wars?
Sith?
@@GORF_EMPIRE Have you ever heard someone say "May the fourth be with you because tomorrow is revenge of the fifth"?
@@goodboy02network90 Actually no,
Some teen: watches this
Still him: gets a love letter in his inbox
STILL him: deletes it instantly.
His crush: WHEN IS HE GONNA REPLY??!?!?!?!
Wait I’m supposed to laugh? Sorry, didn’t know this was a joke
Bruh
Sad humor. Alternative of dark humor.
LOL 😂😂
You know gay won’t affect them right? ._.
Clear, concise, gets to the point. I better subscribe since RUclips’s algorithm will likely bury this awesome channel.
The only way I could see him unintentionally releasing the virus would be if he accidentally launched it himself and it propagated itself through his email list
i was wondering too how that could happen
I remember getting a variant of this from a school friend via MSN Messenger as a kid. I had a request from him to send me a ‘photo’ with ended up replacing all of my files and eventually killing my hard drive. It was gutting as a kid but even more now as I lost a lot of photos and videos of a friend that since passed away.
Did you beat his ass
@@Cherry_Meatloaf Hah nah, he had it too without realising so he couldn’t help it. I wanted to though
Rest in peace
Me, one of the biggest introverts on Earth:
You can't fall for that malware if you don't have any friends!
Lol ya! When I was small no one ever had to tell me not to talk to strangers because I wouldn’t even talk to people I knew! XD
Ikr
genuine comment!
Funny since the one who spreads the virus was an introvert 😂
Don't know who you are I LOVE the straight forward intro.
Ayo doesn’t this sound kinda similar to hitler’s rejection from art school
Lol
The child that feels cold from the tribe will burn it down to feel warm
Hitler didn't hate his own people though
@msKing Maybe other countries shouldn't have pissed off German people?
@msKing "they"? Only hitler got rejected by art school. That isn't why fascism became popular lmao.
Such nostalgia, thinking back to the days where word, paint and e mail were pretty much all you could use on the computer
That's if thats all one wanted .
I'm gay
Same
@Riquelme Carlos Reported for harassment. Have fun crying to your mom!
Don't forget about Solitaire, Minesweeper, 3D Pinball Space Cadet, and a few other card games
This is the type of virus my dad thinks I'll download while downloading videogames
Lol yes
my friend can relate
Same thing but it's me who worries when dad downloads an app
Edit: He literally downloads apps from google
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Its entirely possible if they're coming free. Its only safe if you buy them
Imagine if the worm was created in Silicon Valley instead of Manila. Imagine the damages that would’ve caused
I will tell you one thing: today’s viruses are not so different from the old ones. The key feature is that the user has to take some action to start the virus. So watch where you click
"So watch where you click" why does this sound so gangsta?
zero click exploits are a thing.
@@russellstall169 I never said a virus is the same thing as an exploit.
I'm 31 yet want you to read me a bedtime story. My reasons are my own.
His voice is very calming, isn't it?
@@Kat-mu8wq Not when he keeps saying "mall-ware", lol
@@ayemia1137 Tomaeto, tomato. 🤣
cool profile picture scream queens is great
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Mía mama me osia y Estoi sola eiwi me ayudas siemdo mi amija
Wow! Amazed at how this video has been blowing up! My next video is going to be on the infamous spyware BonziBuddy! Stay tuned for that!
Cool
It’s Valentine’s Day
@King ROFL Sure. :)
Well that’s youtube’s video recommendation system for you
hi
Scrolling through the comments I can’t believe nobody has noticed your Office Space Easter egg with the TPS Reports folder!
I'm still waiting for the nigerian Prince to reply :(
His father ran the freaking country!
When the deposed kings son asks for help you help.
What the fack have I walked into
@@REEEEEEEEHEHEHEHHEEEE why did I read fack as the f word
well i am nigerian so heres your money (or naira)
The fact that it's named "I love you" somehow makes this really creepy
There's some creepypasta out there like that. Good reads.
That act of editing the ILOVEYOU code and rebooting was basically the computer version of getting hit by a car, thinking you're immortal because you lived, and checking for other superpowers by taking a buzzsaw to your own crotch.
2:17 I suddenly really want TXT to create a song called Love Letter For You
ILOVEYOU: *destroys files and becomes the worst virus*
My Doom: hold my script
@TasnimulGamerYT Fan what about MEMZ and sql slammer
noescape.exe?
7
@TasnimulGamerYT Fan mydoom is the deadliest ever it caused 38 billion in damage the most ever
@@PolarKunai fax, it costs 37B-39B
I like how I’m viewing this the day before valentines day
Ye lol
And I'm viewing this the day after I see that person being happy now.
Well at least I’m close:/
I am also close
665
4:31 "This is illegal!" "We do not produce BURGLARS" lol
At first I thought NationSquid was some corporate type channel like WatchMojo but nah it’s this dude giving great info about stuff, rather than an “educational” channel, and not just an internet documentation channel.
"since I have it enabled, I have no idea" -> ignoring the fact that the icon doesn't even resemble that of a .txt
Fr but alot of people didn't know better, not saying nothing but mhmm cough cough "scrubs" mhmm cough
Nowdays virus won't ask for you to push the button and download it as an update.