Love Bug

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Love Bug

A famous virus that arrived as an email attachment using the "double extension trick." The file name was "I LOVE YOU.TXT.vbs." The .vbs extension slipped by users who thought it was a safe text (.TXT) file. Victims using Microsoft Outlook spread the virus to everyone in their address book. In May 2000, the Love Bug replicated itself very quickly to countless users worldwide causing more than $6 billion dollars worth of damage. See double extension and virus.
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The next step is to optimize a trap design that would allow researchers and pest control specialists to capture large numbers of lovebugs during the flight season.
Enhancing the show were big names such as Silbermond, Zuri West, Lovebugs and Stefanie Heinzmann.
Twilight faves Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene re-team for this flick--this time as lovebugs. The movie, on DVD Feb.
Another likely contender for Saturday's final should be the Lovebugs - a disappointingly crediblelooking bunch of Brit-poppers from Switzerland who don't seem to be entering into the cheesorama spirit of Eurovision at all.
Our hens and roosters are all cuddly lovebugs (we have 42).
2:20 Analysis and Discussion of Outbreak of Lovebugs, Plecia Nearctica
From the wide vistas of saltwater marshes teeming with wildlife (great blue herons, Atlantic blue crabs, black and gold fritillary butterflies, mating lovebugs) to the majestic live oaks with whirls of Spanish moss entangled in their limbs to the wide sandy beaches with names (Nanny Goat Beach and Cabrillou) that sound like song titles, the island beckons the appreciative exploring group or the solitary writer seeking inspiration.
``Compared to the really big viruses, the Lovebugs and the Bugbears, which have infected millions, this wasn't a biggie.
Each September, mating flights of lovebugs (Diptera: Plecia nearctica Hardy) occur throughout the southeast (Hetrick 1970; Denmark & Mead 1992).
RUGBY lovebugs looking forward to Valentine's Day are being urged to spread a little love in aid of the pounds 1 million hospice appeal.
Clearly a born educator, Hostetler walked over and cheerfully told the man: "Well, these are lovebugs." Then he proceeded to explain that the insects are attracted to highways because auto exhaust fumes irradiated with