Video Game Empire

Li Xuan was already awake, lying on the side of the bed, quietly admiring the pretty face of his sweet wife who was close at hand. This charming face was more rounded than before. Zhong Chuhong was still peacefully immersed in her sleep, when suddenly her brows wrinkled, and one hand stroked her slightly bulging belly.

Li Xuan's eyes became more gentle, and he also reached out to help his wife gently rub her belly. The third little life of the two of them is pregnant in the stomach, and the little guy inside must have been naughty just now!

"Bell - bell - bell -!" The rapid ringing of the phone broke the warm and peaceful atmosphere.

Li Xuan couldn't help frowning. All calls at home were made to the host computer in the living room downstairs first. Now, unless there was an important matter in the early morning, the family would never transfer to the extension in the bedroom.

Li Xuan quickly got out of bed and took off the cordless phone from the speaker, then opened the door and walked out of the bedroom, so that answering the phone would wake up his sleeping wife. It's just that Li Xuan just put the phone to his ear and listened for a few words, and his face was a little dignified.

Li Xuan just received good news last night and bad news early this morning. Hong Kong started to break out yesterday, a serious Internet virus incident. The number of locally infected computers alone may have exceeded 2,000, and now there is a tendency to spread to the world.

When Li Xuan answered the phone and went back to the bedroom to change clothes, Zhong Chuhong had woken up and leaned on the bed. Zhong Chuhong looked at her husband's frown, and was naturally a little worried: "What happened? Is it serious?"

Li Xuan couldn't help but smiled comfortingly: "It's not a big deal, it's just a little unexpected! A computer virus event broke out in Hong Kong that may be the most serious computer virus event in the history of the world. The Internet age has really come!"

The reason why Li Xuan expresses this emotion is because computer viruses are actually nothing new. In fact, there was a virus that spread all over the world last year. The name virus. It was written by a pair of brothers in Pakistan who run a computer store.

The reason why they wrote this virus is to prevent others from maliciously copying their software. Because the local atmosphere of copying software is very popular. So they added virus code to their software. As long as someone steals the software, the virus will break out and eat up the remaining space on the copy thief's hard drive.

It's just that in the era when the Internet has not yet emerged, the spread of viruses is actually very limited. For example, this virus born in Pakistan has spread to all parts of the world one year ago, and even several more harmful variants have appeared, but most computer users have never heard of this kind of virus. Virus.

The virus outbreak in Hong Kong this time almost paralyzed the entire Hong Kong network in just one day. More than 2,000 computers were directly infected. And other computer users who haven't been infected are now afraid to connect to the Internet.

The virus was first discovered by the after-sales service departments of Aikang and CG (Computer Corner).

"Since yesterday morning, the after-sales hotline of our Hong Kong branch has received calls for help from some users! Characters who said that their computer had suddenly lost control appeared on the screen and kept wandering. Then the computer's response began to change. It gets more and more clumsy, sluggish, and finally crashes!

Since yesterday was New Year's Day, most of our after-sales engineers were on vacation, so we haven't been able to pay attention to this issue! Since last night, there have been calls for help similar to the above. suddenly reached a peak.

From 7pm to 11pm last night, our after sales hotline has been extremely busy. In just four or five hours, we have received a total of 876 identical phone calls!

At 8 o'clock last night, I announced that the Asian region had entered a state of emergency response, and canceled the leave of all the company's after-sales engineers. And according to us overnight on multiple infected computers. As a result of the detection, it was found that a hidden malicious program was loaded in the memory of these computers.

This program will keep doing a lot of read and write operations. As a result, the computing resources of the computer system are seriously consumed, and the computer response becomes extremely slow! "

Li Xuanyi went to the conference room of the Oriental Building. An intra-group global simultaneous TV and teleconference was immediately held. Now presenting the situation is the president of Icon Asia.

The virus was probably uploaded to the Internet in the early hours of New Year's Day. Then it spreads continuously in the form of e-mail. However, from the early hours of yesterday to yesterday's daytime, it was not the peak of Internet access in Hong Kong, so the speed of diffusion was slower. After a day's accumulation, the virus has been spread on a large scale. When the peak of Internet access came last night, it immediately showed a state of concentrated outbreak!

"After our colleagues at Ikon separated the samples, we immediately organized the strongest technical force at the Silicon Valley headquarters to analyze the code of this malicious program. This is a self-replicating worm that spreads through the virus. After infecting the computer, through a vulnerability in the east-system, various login passwords and passwords in the computer can be deciphered.

Then the worm starts to log in automatically, the email client of the infected computer, and automatically forwards an email with the virus code to all contacts in the contact list!

And when the person who receives the email clicks on it, his computer is immediately infected with a virus! "A white man with a beard introduced the transmission principle of the virus on the big TV screen. He was Thomson, the chief engineer of the Eastern System Software Company.

"Have you found a solution to the problem now?" This is the question Li Xuan is most concerned about now.

"We have developed an emergency security patch for this vulnerability in the east-system! In fact, as long as users who have installed the 'Shield' security software, do not need to be afraid of this virus. Our antivirus software can identify and Quarantine. But if you want to kill it completely, you need to update the new virus database that was introduced last night!" Thomson continued.

"The system vulnerability exposed this time. It may have some adverse effects on the sales of east-. We have reached a cooperation with cg company, and the cg Hong Kong flagship store will start this morning. The east- system patch update will be free for all users. , and the latest virus database upgrade for 'Shield' security software!

And other cg stores around the world. This service will be launched one after another! At the same time, we have also launched the update package for free on the Internet for users to download and install by themselves! "He Guoyuan, president of Eastern Systems, then appeared on the TV screen and said.

On the way to Dongfang Building by car, Li Xuan had actually seen the latest announcement in the newspaper that Dongfang System Software Company purchased advertising space overnight.

"Crisis also contains opportunities. This virus incident is undoubtedly an excellent publicity opportunity for our 'Shield' security software!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

Dongfang System Software Company's "Shield" security software was just after the virus spread all over the world. The launch of a professional antivirus software. The top management of the system software company has long realized that the future of the security software field will be very bright! It's just that "Shield" has been selling very bleak since it was listed for half a year.

Because most ordinary users have never seen the huge harm of computer viruses, they are naturally reluctant to spend money on security software. Xianbi After this virus threat, computer users in Hong Kong will definitely realize the importance of installing an anti-virus software on their computers.

"We are already working on a PR marketing plan to try to minimize the negative impact on the brand caused by east- loopholes! In order to compensate consumers for their losses, we are ready to offer 'Shield' software. Great discounts in the Hong Kong market Benefit." He Guoyuan on TV explained.

"No software is perfect, and the loopholes in the east-system are not the only one exposed this time. The price of 'Shield' software can be reduced in Hong Kong, but the reason must not be to compensate consumers! Because We have no responsibility for this incident. All losses caused by the virus should be borne by the producers and spreaders of the virus." Li Xuan said seriously.

The operating system of Dongfang System Software Company occupies the vast majority of the market share. It's like a find-the-difference game with countless people playing together. There will always be some smart people who can find some holes in it.

Compared with future graphics operating systems, the current system vulnerabilities are relatively few. Wait until future OS. When there are as many as tens of millions of lines of code, the vulnerabilities will be as many as sieves. At that time, it is estimated that the patch will need to be updated every three days.

There will be more and more hacking activities in the future by exploiting the vulnerabilities of the operating system to carry out network attacks. If Dongfang System Software Company is burdened with too much moral burden, even if all its own profits are used to compensate, it will not be enough, so Li Xuan is absolutely reluctant to make such a start.

"This virus incident will definitely have a certain impact on the brands of Aikang and Dongfang System Software. After all, the problem is your products! I suggest that the two companies can donate a sum of money to establish a global computer and Internet Security Alliance, to promote the construction of an emergency response system for global information security!" Li Xuan said after thinking for a while.

You must know that there are only 20,000 or 30,000 computers in Hong Kong that can be connected to the Internet, but this time the number of computers infected by the virus is as high as one-tenth. The Oriental Group's response to this online virus incident was actually quite decisive. However, if there is an Internet emergency security agency that will issue an early warning as soon as the virus appears, and coordinate computer experts to crack down on it, the impact will definitely be much smaller.

Fortunately, this hny virus (heapnewyear) is more like a New Year's prank, and the harm after the computer is infected is not serious! But it still caused huge panic among computer users all over Hong Kong. According to data from the Hong Kong Telephone Company, the number of computers connected to the Internet in Hong Kong has plummeted since last night. Everyone has been afraid to surf the Internet, fearing that their computers will also be recruited.

Just when the Orient Group was holding an emergency meeting, the Hong Kong Internet virus incident finally caused a shock in Hong Kong society after a day of fermentation. In fact, the term "Internet" was mentioned most frequently in Hong Kong public opinion at the end of 1986.

And what brought this Internet craze was the recent romance film "Sleepless in Hong Kong" by Asian Films. This film has been released in many places in Asia since the beginning of November, and it has achieved a double harvest of word-of-mouth and box office. It was released in Hong Kong's local market for only three weeks, and it received a box office of 12 million Hong Kong dollars.

After entering December, the box office of "Sleepless in Hong Kong" began to weaken. But it suddenly won many awards in the United States, and it became the biggest foreign language film at the Oscars this year, and it also promoted the rebound of the local box office in Hong Kong. The popularity of "Sleepless in Hong Kong" also allowed more people to understand computers and the Internet, so that the sales of computers in Hong Kong also attracted a small outbreak.

Also benefited a lot from the Hong Kong Telephone Company. Many people were attracted by the online world shown in the movie, and they applied for the Internet service one after another. The rapid development of the Internet in Hong Kong ~www.readwn.com~ is actually an important basis for the large-scale spread of the virus.

"Zhao, I've locked this IP address, it's on Dexing Street in Jordan, Kowloon!" a man with glasses suddenly shouted.

Another man sitting in the corner drinking coffee immediately rushed forward and took a note from the man with glasses. He glanced at it and immediately shouted: "Ahui, call everyone to gather! After staying up all day and night, I finally caught this guy!"

"Yes,!" Another subordinate immediately ran to inform the other officers of the team.

The Internet is a new thing, and the Hong Kong police have never encountered such a crime as a network virus before. Therefore, there is no way to do anything about this, and we can only rely on the technical team urgently dispatched by the Eastern Group to assist in solving the case.

However, it is not easy to find out the maker of the virus. The technical team also got the clues provided by a netizen before pinpointing the culprit that caused the large-scale computer virus infection in Hong Kong. Netizens who provided clues said that they once saw a discussion thread about "core war" in the Oriental Pearl bbs forum. Another netizen who participated in the discussion mentioned that he was going to do a sensational event in the New Year!

The so-called "core war" was originally a video game invented by three technicians at Bell Labs. Both sides of the battle write a set of regeneration programs and input them into the same computer.

So the two programs began to keep fighting each other in the computer until one of the programs was completely destroyed. This way of destroying software provides many technical references for the birth of computer viruses, which can be described as one of the earliest origins of computer viruses. (To be continued...)

ps: This chapter owed yesterday will be made up tomorrow!

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