The VBS.LoveLetter virus emerged early in the morning of May 4, 2000.
News reports indicate that it originated in Asia and spread quickly to Europe and North America.
The virus is written in the Visual Basic scripting language and acts as a file infector, e-mail worm, and mIRC chat worm. What IT Is Doing By late morning, Information Technology sent both a broadcast e-mail and a broadcast voice mail to all faculty, staff, and students at William and Mary warning them of the virus. Another e-mail was sent this afternoon with updated information, including the address of this page for further updates. Messages that have this subject are returned to the sender along with a note that the message may be infected by a virus. IT staff have deleted infected VBS files from IT file servers.