Love Bug’s creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila
Filipino Onel de Guzman, now 44, states he unleashed the romance Bug computer earthworm to steal passwords so he could connect to the internet without having to pay.
He claims he never intended it to spread globally.
And that he states he regrets the harm his code caused.
"I did not expect it might arrive at the US and Europe. I had been surprised," he stated within an interview for Crime Us dot Com, a forthcoming book on cyber-crime.
The Romance Bug pandemic started on 4 May, 2000.
Victims received an e-mail attachment titled LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU. It contained malicious code that will overwrite files, steal passwords, and instantly send copies of itself to any or all contacts within the victim's Microsoft Outlook address book.
Within 24 hrs, it had been causing major ...