The Love Bug: Few Take an Online Sick Day Due to Virus
5/19/2000 | 
Memo | John Horrigan Susannah Fox
In spite of widely publicized warnings about dangers of the Love Bug, only 15% of American adults who use email reported that they received the email containing the ILOVEYOU virus. Four percent of email users opened the file, thereby infecting their computer. Even though a small proportion of users received the Love Bug email, approximately 12 million Americans received the email and more than 3 million email users activated the virus. The virus did not depress online activity in the United States. On Thursday, May 4, 2000, the day the Love Bug struck in the United States, 26% of all Americans went online to send or read email, which is normal for an average day.
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