Sinofsky shares 2000 'I Love You' worm clipping that crashed 2/3 of Fortune 500 mail
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-14
Steven Sinofsky jokes he's no longer responsible for the worst Outlook outage from 26 years ago, sharing a 2000 CNN Money clipping about the "I Love You" worm: it spawned 11 copycats, CERT logged 600,000+ infected machines, an estimated two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies shut down mail servers, and productivity losses ran into the billions.
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