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May 4, 2020 · Now 44 years of age, Onel de Guzman, the man behind the worm-turned-virus has faded from people’s attention. There had been some hearsays which claim that the famed hacker was either recruited by Microsoft or had emigrated to Austria, Germany, or the United States.
Sep 12, 2020 · For 20 years, de Guzman’s silence left a cloud hanging over his classmate Buen, who is commonly listed as the joint author of the virus. Yet according to de Guzman, he had nothing to do with it.
May 3, 2020 · The Philippines, like a number of countries at the turn of the millennium, had not legislated against computer crime. And an attempt to prosecute de Guzman on fraud charges was later dropped.
May 4, 2020 · De Guzman claims he sent the virus initially to someone in Singapore, and then went out drinking with a friend. The first he knew of the global chaos he had unleashed was when his mother told...
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May 4, 2020 · The man who created the first major global computer virus has finally admitted he was behind it, 20-years after it was unleashed. Onel de Guzman said he authored the Love Bug computer worm to steal passwords as a way to freely access the internet, according to a forthcoming book on cyber crime.
May 4, 2020 · 20 years ago, a young Filipino programmer, Onel de Guzman, was about to become the prime suspect in a criminal investigation. Why? He appeared to have set lose the so called ILOVEYOU computer virus, a worm that infected tens of millions of Windows computers around the world in May 2000.
Apr 21, 2020 · After 20 years of silence, Onel de Guzman has admitted unleashing the “Love Bug”, the computer virus that caused havoc by infecting 45 million machines around the world.
