The code was based on an earlier VB virus. What was more potent in the
ILOVEYOU virus would be the psychological side.
An email with a subject "I love you" is more likely to be opened than an
email with "SLSHE555" as the subject.
BTW, I heard (first hand) na he applied at Trend-Micro. Syempre di siya
kinuha.
>
> But what I really liked to know is that if the perpetrator himself did
> the code or just cut-and-pasted.
>
> What do you know? Tsimis ;> Hehehe
>
> Holden
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