Topic: A decade on from the ILOVEYOU bug

[Clive]

For Paul Fletcher, manager of Star Labs security, 4 May 2000 started like any other day. By the end of the day nothing would ever be the same again.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10095957.stm

[Rik]

For any of us...

[Clive]

Very sad. 

[sam]

sounds like it didn't stop star labs...

[Rik]

Quite the opposite, Sam. We moved from weekly or monthly updates and scan on demand, to multiple updates daily with background scanning. It really was a major sea change in how online security was handled. Sadly, some people didn't learn.

[sam]

and still havent

[Simon]

Indeed.