Li Xuan had already woken up, lying on his side at the head of the bed, quietly admiring the pretty face of his wife close at hand, this charming face was a little more rounded than before. Zhong Chuhong was still peacefully immersed in her sleep, and suddenly her brows furrowed, and one hand stroked her slightly bulging lower abdomen.

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

"Ring-ring-ring-!"

Li Xuan couldn't help frowning, the phone calls at home were all made to the host in the living room downstairs first, and now early in the morning, unless there was something important, the family would never turn to the extension in the bedroom.

Li Xuan quickly got out of bed and took off the cordless phone from the talking desk, and then opened the door and walked out of the bedroom, so as not to wake up his wife who was still sleeping soundly when answering the phone. It's just that Li Xuan just put the phone to his ear and listened to a few words, and his face was already slightly solemn.

Li Xuan just received a good news last night, and he received a bad news early this morning, which is really a blessing and a curse. Hong Kong has had an outbreak since yesterday, a serious cyber virus incident. There may have been more than 2,000 locally infected computers alone, and there is a trend of spreading to the whole world.

When Li Xuan answered the phone and walked back to the bedroom to change clothes, Zhong Chuhong had already woken up and leaned on the head of the bed. Zhong Chuhong looked at her husband's frowning slightly, and was naturally a little worried: "What's wrong?

Li Xuan couldn't help but smile comfortingly: "It's not a big deal, it's just a bit unexpected! A computer virus outbreak in Hong Kong may be the most serious computer virus incident in the history of the world." The Internet era has really come!"

The reason why Li Xuan expressed this emotion was because computer viruses were actually nothing new for a long time. In fact, last year there was a virus that spread all over the world. The virus called Brain. It was written by a pair of brothers who run a computer store in Pakistan.

They wrote the virus to prevent others from maliciously copying their software. This is because the local culture of software piracy is very prevalent. So they added the code of the Brain virus to their software. As long as someone steals the software, the virus will attack and eat up the remaining space on the hard drive of the thief.

It's just that in the era before the rise of the Internet, the spread of the virus was actually very limited. For example, the Brain virus, which was born in Pakistan, has spread to all parts of the world one after another a year ago, and even several more harmful variants have appeared, but most computer users have never heard of this virus.

The outbreak of the virus in Hong Kong almost paralyzed the entire Hong Kong network in just one day. More than 2,000 computers were directly infected. Other computer users who have not yet been infected are now afraid to connect to the Internet.

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

"Since yesterday morning, the after-sales hotline of our Hong Kong branch has received calls for help from some users! They said that their computers suddenly lost control, and the characters of "HappyNewYear!" appeared on the screen and kept wandering. Then the computer starts to react more and more clumsily, sluggishly, and finally it freezes!

Since yesterday was New Year's Day, most of our after-sales engineers were on vacation, so they have not been able to pay attention to this issue! Suddenly a peak was reached.

From 7 to 11 p.m. last night, our after-sales hotline was extremely busy. In just four or five hours, we received a total of 876 identical calls!

At 8 o'clock last night, I declared an emergency response state in Asia and canceled the leave of all our after-sales engineers. And according to our overnight search on multiple infected computers. The results of the test revealed that the memory of these computers was loaded with a hidden malicious program.

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

Li Xuan arrived at the conference room of the Oriental Building. Immediately, a global synchronous television and telephone conference was held within the group. Now the presentation is made by the president of Akon Asia.

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

"After our colleagues at Aikang isolated the sample, 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 via email. After infecting the computer, the virus was able to decipher various login passwords and passwords in the computer through a vulnerability in the East-DOS system.

The worm then starts automatically logging into the infected computer's email client and automatically forwards a message with the virus code to all the contacts in the contact list!

And as soon as the person who receives the e-mail clicks on the e-mail, his computer will immediately be infected by the virus!" a white man with a long beard, who explains the principle of the spread of the virus on the big TV screen, is Thomson, the chief engineer of Oriental System Software.

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

"We have developed an emergency security patch for this vulnerability in the East-DOS system! In fact, as long as the user has installed the 'Shield' security software, there is no need to be afraid of this virus. Our antivirus software can identify and isolate this virus. But if you want to kill it completely, you need to update the new virus database that was launched last night!" Thomson continued.

"The system vulnerabilities exposed this time. There may be some adverse impact on the sales of East-DOS. We have reached a cooperation with CG Company, and CG's Hong Kong flagship store will start this morning. Patch updates for the East-DOS system will be provided free of charge for all users, as well as the latest virus database upgrade for the Shield security software!

And CG stores around the world. At the same time, we have also launched a free update package on the Internet for users to download and install by themselves!" He Guoyuan, president of Dongfang Systems, then appeared on the TV screen.

On the way to the Oriental Building by car, Li Xuan had actually seen in the newspaper that the Oriental System Software Company had purchased advertising pages overnight and urgently published the latest announcement.

"There are also opportunities in the crisis, and this virus incident is undoubtedly an excellent publicity opportunity for our 'shield' security software!" Li Xuan said with a smile.

Dongfang System Software's "Shield" security software was after the Brain virus spread around the world. A professional antivirus software launched. The top management of the system software company has long realized that the future prospects in the field of security software will be very bright! However, in the six months since the "shield" was launched, sales have been very bleak.

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

"We are already working on a PR marketing plan to minimize the negative impact on the brand caused by the East-DOS vulnerability! Significant discounts in the Hong Kong market. He Guoyuan on TV explained.

"No software is perfect, and the vulnerabilities in the East-DOS system are not the only ones that have been exposed this time. The price of the 'shield' software can be reduced in Hong Kong, but the reason must not be to compensate the consumer! because we have no responsibility for this incident. All the losses caused by the virus should be borne by the virus creators and the people who spread it. Li Xuan said solemnly.

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

Compared with the future graphics operating system, the current DOS system has relatively few vulnerabilities. Wait until the future operating system. With tens of millions of lines of code, there are as many vulnerabilities as a sieve. At that time, it is estimated that it will need to be updated in three days.

In the future, more and more hackers will take advantage of operating system vulnerabilities to carry out cyber attacks. If Dongfang System Software Company carries too much moral baggage, even if all its profits are compensated, it will not be enough, so Li Xuan is absolutely unwilling to start this head.

"This virus incident will definitely have a certain impact on the brands of Aikang and Dongfang System Software, after all, it is your product that has the problem! 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 a global information security emergency response system!" Li Xuan thought for a while and said.

You must know that there are only 20,000 or 30,000 computers in Hong Kong that can be connected to the Internet, but as many as one-tenth of the computers infected by the virus this time are as high as one-tenth. The reaction of the Eastern Bloc to this cyber virus incident is actually very decisive. However, if there is an Internet emergency security agency that can issue an early warning at the first time of the virus and coordinate computer experts to crack the encirclement, the impact will definitely be much smaller.

Fortunately, the HNY virus (HeapNewYear) is more like a New Year's prank, and the harm of computer infection is not serious! But it still causes a huge panic among computer users in 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 yesterday evening. Everyone is afraid to go online, and they are afraid that their computers will also be tricked.

Just when the Oriental 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" can be said to be mentioned most frequently in Hong Kong public opinion at the end of 1986.

And what brought this Internet craze was the romance film "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong" recently promoted by Asia Pictures. This film has been released in many places in Asia since the beginning of November, and has reaped a double harvest of word-of-mouth and box office. In just three weeks after its release in the Hong Kong local market, it collected 12 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office.

Originally, after entering December, the box office of "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong" began to weaken. But it suddenly won a lot of awards in the United States, and it became the biggest favorite for the biggest foreign-language film at the Oscars this year, which also drove another rebound at the local box office in Hong Kong. The popularity of "Sleepless Nights in Hong Kong" has also made more people begin to understand computers and the Internet, so that the sales of computers in Hong Kong have also attracted a small explosion.

Hong Kong Telephone Company has also benefited greatly, and many people have been attracted by the online world shown in the movie and have applied for Internet service. The rapid development of the Internet in Hong Kong is actually an important foundation for the large-scale spread of the virus.

"Zhao Sir, I have locked the address of this IP, which is on Tak Hing Street in Jordan, Kowloon!" a man with glasses suddenly shouted.

Another man, who was 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, "Ah Hui, tell everyone to gather! After staying up for a day and a night, I finally found out this guy!"

"Yes, Sir!" another subordinate immediately ran to inform the other officers in the group.

The Internet is a new thing, and the Hong Kong police have never encountered such a crime as a cyber virus before. Therefore, it is natural that there is nothing to do about this, and can only rely on the technical team urgently dispatched by the Eastern Group to help solve the case.

But it is not easy to find out the maker of the virus, and the technical team also got a clue from a netizen to lock down the culprit that caused the large-scale computer virus infection in Hong Kong. The netizen who provided the clue said that he had seen a discussion post about the "core war" in the Pearl of the Orient 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 Wars" is a video game first invented by three technicians at Bell Labs. Each opposing player writes a set of regeneration programs and enters them into the same computer.

So the two programs began to fight 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, and can be said to be one of the earliest origins of computer viruses. (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter that I owe yesterday will be made up tomorrow!