With the increasing popularity of computers, the number of people who own computers in the United States is no longer limited to people above the middle class, even many people with low incomes can afford computers.

However, these people are different from the middle-class people who are very observant of intellectual property rights, and they hate it very much, and they do not comply with intellectual property rights at all.

Paid software does not want to buy any of them, and they have become a high incidence of spreading pirated and free software.

However, there is no reason in this world that because you are poor, the virus will not infect you.

Although they are cautious about using computers, they have no professional qualifications, and they have no idea that any sanctimonious website they have visited is full of viruses.

It is only when the computer becomes stuck that they will remember if their computer is infected with a virus. It's only when someone around them hangs up on their computer because of a virus that they think about antivirus software.

However, while they think of antivirus software, they don't buy it in the first place.

What are you kidding, the price of a first-hand computer is only about $1,000, and a second-hand computer can even be bought for $500, $400, or $300.

It's certainly not realistic to ask them to spend $100, or a third of the price of a computer, on antivirus!

Therefore, even if they want to install antivirus software, they will add the prefix "free" to the search term.

And when they actually searched for this entry in the search engine, they really found the URL of a free antivirus, and they clicked on it to download it.

Although the download speed is very slow, although some people have more than a day. But thinking about the days when they could be protected by antivirus software, they smiled like children.

"Hmm...... The interface of this antivirus seems to be a bit rudimentary...... Why do you ask for so many free things?

"Uh...... How...... Why is this software like this? Antivirus software is like this?"

Free antivirus software that often fakes death, crashes, and has an outdated virus database is definitely not easy to use, and can even be said to be very difficult to use.

However, there are a lot of free users who use this free antivirus.

"Tom, Tom, come and see! There's a new free antivirus on the Internet, anyone can download it!" shouted a security officer about Tom Clancy's age.

"Oh, let's test it out. Tom said.

"Good. ”

In fact, the frequency of use of virtual machine technology was not very high a few years ago, but in the past two months, the popularity has suddenly increased.

Because antivirus software companies need to develop corresponding strategies in virtual machines.

Once you encounter any novel virus, you have to run it in a virtual machine, so that you can analyze what its function is and the corresponding solution.

Of course, the optimization of the antivirus software itself should also be carried out in the virtual machine.

You know, antivirus software works on a simple basis, which is to violently go through everything on your computer like a sieve.

However, how to make this process efficient and low in terms of hardware resource occupation is a very knowledgeable thing.

And this set of core technologies, when it falls into antivirus software, has become a seemingly advanced word called "antivirus engine".

It is precisely because the algorithms used by each antivirus software company are different, so although the ability of each antivirus software to detect and kill viruses is different, the user experience is very different.

For example, Kaspersky, this antivirus software, is best at four words, "Kaba, crash". That's not to say that this software is very problematic.

It's just that the hardware configuration of most computers does not support the operation of this software.

As a result, there is a problem that the software crashes frequently.

"Who made this antivirus?" said Tom, looking at the antivirus software running virtually.

You know, except for those old antivirus software companies, all the companies that claim to be free antivirus software. Tom's company may not have been the first, but it was the fastest.

All the employees of the company are a group of young men.

This group of young lads is very energetic, working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, even seven days a week.

The monthly electricity bill can even cost $10,000.

They worked so hard, it wasn't that Tom forced them, they all volunteered.

After all, the overtime pay for this is sufficient, and the salary income obtained by working twelve hours a day is equivalent to about three times that of an eight-hour workday.

One month of work in this is equivalent to three months of work at companies such as Kaspersky.

It's really January stronger than March.

Other free security software companies don't have a $10 million investment, so they can't compete with Tom Kleisy's company.

"Analyze! Analyze!" the assistant shouted and trotted over, "This software was made by Symantec." After we unshelled, we found habitual signatures on code notes. ”

The so-called habitual signature is not really to write one's own name. Rather, it is the habit of some companies and individuals, who feel that their programs are well written, and leave their names directly and are too public, so they choose the habitual signature model.

Those who know how to understand it naturally, and those who don't understand it, and even some beginners have the mentality of pilgrimage, and see these methods of identifying the great gods from the cheats, they really found this code, and they will worship religiously.

This kind of inner cow is full of red and radiant feeling, but the programmer, a stuffy (meow) dead house group, favorites.

However, this little habit sometimes leaves traces when these initiators have forgotten. Therefore, Tom and his colleagues in his company found the company that produced the software within an hour of researching it.

"What is Symantec going to do? Instead of making paid antivirus software, make free antivirus software and compete with us?" asked the supervisor next to Tom.

The quick-witted Tom didn't follow this train of thought, but asked, "Is this software stuck, slow, and not easy to use?"

"yes! How can Symantec's technology be so bad?" the director still didn't know.

"You ......" Tom looked at the supervisor who hadn't reacted in surprise, and vaguely felt as if he had chosen the wrong supervisor.

"Symantec is trying to make a stink of free antivirus!" exclaims Tom Kleisie.