I Love You, I Kill You: Amorous Virus Invades the Email World

Updated from 1:59 p.m. EDT

An insidious computer virus called the Loveletter rampaged through email systems around the world Thursday, disrupting Internet communications among hundreds of thousands of computer users from Hong Kong to America's industrial heartland.

Computer security experts said the virus, which disguises itself as an alluring email called "I LOVE YOU," was one of the fastest-spreading cyber-scourges they had ever seen. Many major computer users, from Britain's Parliament to Wall Street brokerages to the Ford Motor Co., shut their email systems temporarily while technicians purged the infection.

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