The example that I will be discussing is the ILOVEYOU virus created in 2000 by Onel de Guzman from the Philippines. This letter was sent through email to unsuspecting individuals thinking it was a real love letter or a joke. When people opened this file it sent itself to everyone in the person who opened the files email list sending to more and more people. When this was opened it also destroyed most of the person who opened the files hard drive by either renaming files or deleting files. Many of the people who had their hard drives destroyed did not have backups for their data. So, many people had to explain to bosses why many of their important documents had simply gone missing. This to say the least this virus exposed vulnerabilities on the internet that are still being worked on 20 years later. This virus took Denmark’s parliament offline, forced the UK’s house of commons to shut down their email servers. These are bad things that this caused outside of the US. In the US this virus shut down the Pentagon, AT&T, Ford, and multiple US Army bases. This virus was on track to cause up to 10 billion dollars in damage, but because of the people who stopped this virus spreading. The reason that de Guzman created this program was just to gain windows passwords so that he could gain more time on the internet because at the time in the Philippines internet access was charged by the minute. When de Guzman’s teachers found put this is what he was planning to do he was angry saying that the school does not produce burglars. This would cost de Guzman his degree, but it would not be determined illegal. There were no laws at times that determined what de Guzman did to be a crime. Laws were created soon after this incident making it possible for people who committed acts like this to be persecuted for it, but it could not be applied retroactively. De Guzman was never brought to justice. Many people tried to replicate this virus. This made investigators furious because de Guzman created a bad example for other young internet users. It made people aware that this is something that could happen to anyone it did not just happen to companies and defense agencies. This incident changed the way that the public looked at and took protection against malware.