2001: First Spamming Viruses Appeared
These viruses included Melissa, and the notorious "I Love You" virus, which, when opened, contained code that wreaked havoc on millions of end users' computer.
Meanwhile, security experts start to notice more financially driven spam, as well as some of the first mass mailing worm viruses that crawled through an unsuspecting user's address book in order to send out more e-mail, or plant Trojans, to everyone on the list.
