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Hacking with Go: Part 1 (Go Time #205)

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VB Script, the Love Bug

Microsoft has was a G script, which is kind of a flavor of JavaScript. So you have malware written that. But that runs on the system properly, doesn't it? That's not just in the browser that one. Yeah. VB script, the love bug was VB script. I remember this was where it would use the outlook automation APIs essentially to email itself to all of your contacts. And then it sends an email saying, oh, I love you. Check out this file.vb or something,. People would just happily double click and it would then send it... It was sort of this viral, literally virus kind of.

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