{"id":8,"date":"2000-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/2000\/05\/05\/town-email-infected-by-the-iloveyou-virus\/"},"modified":"2000-05-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-05-05T00:00:00","slug":"town-email-infected-by-the-iloveyou-virus","status":"public-archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/2000\/05\/05\/town-email-infected-by-the-iloveyou-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Email infected by the &#8220;ILOVEYOU&#8221; Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tTown of Sudbury was forced to shutdown its&#39; email system when nine employees opened an email containing the &quot;ILOVEYOU&quot; Virus. The town&#39;s email is now functional but at least five new strains of the &quot;ILOVEYOU&quot; worm have been identified, including an especially nasty &quot;Mother&#39;s Day&quot; mutation.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen the employees opened the email it replicated itself sending infected emails to three hundred email addresses listed in the Town&#39;s Global Address Book and to anyone who was listed in the nine users Personal Contacts Book. The virus also corrupted all graphic and sound files on the user&#39;s computer and network drives. Anyone receiving any email from the Town of Sudbury with &quot;ILOVEYOU&quot; in the subject line should delete it immediately. DO NOT OPEN IT. If you have any questions or concerns about this email virus feel free to call Mark Thompson at 978-443-8891, x307.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town temporarily shutdown its&#8217; email system when nine employees opened an email containing the &#8220;ILOVEYOU&#8221; Virus.  At least five new strains of the &#8220;ILOVEYOU&#8221; worm have been identified, including an especially nasty &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day&#8221; mutation. <a href=\"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/2000\/05\/05\/town-email-infected-by-the-iloveyou-virus\/\" aria-label=\"Read full article about Town Email infected by the &#8220;ILOVEYOU&#8221; Virus\">Read full article<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudbury.ma.us\/infosys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}