Chapter 678: Virus Attack
On the TV screen, CNN news is playing.
President Bush visited Arlington National Cemetery and delivered a speech at the cemetery.
"In order to maintain peace in the world, in order to fulfill the relevant resolutions of the United Nations, our soldiers, who fought bravely to defend the sovereignty of the territory of our friend, Kuwait, we believe that justice will prevail!" Bush Sr.'s face was full of seriousness: "At the same time, we will also make the conspirators behind it pay!" ”
Looking at the war threat of Bush Sr. on TV, John Sr. in front of the TV turned off the TV with a snap.
When I was in the election, how did I choose Bush as president? Clinton said it very well at that time, stupid, the problem is the economy! This Bush, except for being able to fight, will not be able to do anything else at all!
The U.S. economy has been depressed over the years.
After the war in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union was already visibly weakened, and the European side had no worries and was less and less willing to act as an ATM for the United States. Their desire for independence, intent on strength.
A large number of manufacturing industries in the United States have either gone bankrupt or downsized, or simply transferred to third-world countries such as China and Pakistan for production.
The United States is becoming a country without manufacturing, relying on a developed financial and service industry to support the prosperity of the whole country. But how long can this prosperity last?
Think of France, which once became the richest country in Europe by borrowing.
But in the end, they became a second-rate power, and then they were almost beaten down by the Germans in World War I, and they were killed directly at the beginning of World War II.
Could it be that the United States will also become a second France in the future?
Many pessimists wrote in the newspapers that although the Cold War would end in a complete victory for the United States. But the ultimate beneficiary is not the United States. The United States had already begun to decline before it became prosperous, and the twilight of empire was hanging over the horizon, signaling the prospect of the country's decline.
The U.S. economy has reached a precarious point.
In order to maintain US hegemony, it is necessary to control the lifeblood of the world economy. Oil is the key!
Although after the withdrawal of troops in Iraq. Middle Eastern countries are increasingly resentful of the US military presence in the Gulf. But the United States still insists on staying there, and that is why. Moreover, in order to contain the development of other countries in an all-round way, the United States must take all measures that it can take, and it must not hesitate to use force to firmly control the oil in its own hands.
In view of this, an attack on Iraq is not only necessary but also imminent.
As long as Iraq's oil is in the hands of the United States as soon as possible, the United States will control more than 60 percent of the world's oil reserves. Take the second as a bargaining chip. The United States can secretly incite oil companies. Arbitrarily raise the price of oil, causing global financial turmoil and reshuffling global wealth.
Of course, the backbone of the U.S. economy is also finance.
With financial leverage, the United States can still raise enough money to continue living in luxury.
The good thing is that the dollar is the world's currency and can be manipulated at will.
Significant depreciation will be an economic crisis. Pass it on to the whole world.
To be poor, everyone is poor together!
Wait until the economies of other countries are destroyed. When a large number of enterprises went bankrupt and lost competitors, the United States slowly gathered the dollar, let the price rise, and continued to use the price difference to buy a large number of raw materials from other countries. for national consumption.
This kind of method has been played very skillfully by the United States and has been tried and tested repeatedly.
And if you want to control these, you need war! Only through war can we control the oil resources of the Middle East. Maintain the petrodollar system and safeguard the economic base of the United States.
But now, although the United States has taken control of Kuwait and has realized the stationing of troops in Kuwait, it is not very glorious, it is not they who fought it, they have suffered a defeat, and it is the Iraqis who have taken the initiative to retreat!
Although the Americans claimed to have defeated the Iraqis and relied on military pressure to get the Iraqis to withdraw their troops, as long as they have a strong eye, they can see that the United States is fighting this time like the Vietnam War.
And in ordinary Americans, what is felt is the continued deterioration of the economy.
Although there are United Nations resolutions and the sponsorship of some Gulf tyrants in the use of force against the Gulf region, the United States still spends a lot of money, especially the pension for the war dead, which is an astronomical amount, and the elder Bush, who is not willing to accept defeat, has not withdrawn his troops in the Gulf and increased the number of troops stationed in the Gulf, which is another new expense; after all, the previous expenses can be reimbursed by the Gulf tyrants, but the current expenses are not bought by the Gulf countries, and what they hope is that the United States will withdraw its troops.
Needless to say, the crisis in the Gulf caused by the sharp rise in crude oil prices has brought US oil prices to a new level.
Americans like to drive cars with large displacement, as the leader of the free world, they enjoy the benefits of low-cost crude oil, and now, oil prices are suddenly high, and at the same time, oil-related industries, petrochemicals and so on have skyrocketed. Coupled with the government's serious overspending on military spending, which has led to a drastic reduction in social welfare and other aspects, all of this indicates that the United States is about to enter an economic winter.
Some small companies have begun to go bankrupt, John Sr. originally ran a restaurant in Manhattan, hired two Chinese cooks, in the name of Chinese specialties, there are many people who come to eat, and the usual income is okay, but now, the situation of full seats has long been gone, many times, one or two people eat in the restaurant a day.
Now, watching the old Bush on TV making remarks that he wants to continue to fight in the Middle East, and he still looks like he is still not letting go of the conspiracy behind it, as if he wants to fight with the Soviet Union and start a third world war, John Sr. is uncomfortable for a while.
In today's restaurant, there is only one table with customers, you know, today is a legal holiday, this time last year, the restaurant was full, and there was a queue outside.
Alas.
Old John, who lowered his head, began to look at his computer.
John Sr. keeps pace with the times, just after the computer just became popular, he used the computer to manage the restaurant, and the daily income, purchase, inventory, etc., the computer counted it intuitively.
Now, his computer has been upgraded to install Microsoft's Windows 3.1 system, which has a complete graphical interface, and can even use the mouse to click.
Now, he opened the minesweeper game that came with it and clicked on it on his own.
In the past, DOS was a letter interface, but now it has a graphical interface, and it is equipped with a lot of games, especially this minesweeper, but it is a game that fully develops the mind!
Old John's hand clicked the mouse, and this time he was lucky, and he clicked on a large piece at once.
The rest is going to be tempted little by little! Old John forgot all the unpleasantness for a while, and when this restaurant still belonged to him, and this computer still belonged to him, let's have a little more pastime!
Suddenly, a snowflake appeared on the screen in front of me.
What's going on? For a moment, Old John thought that he was staring at the spherical screen, and he was dazzled by it for too long, but when he rubbed his eyes vigorously, he realized that it was not his own eyes, but the screen was a flower!
What's going on? Old John looked at the screen in front of him, which was refreshing frantically and rapidly at this time, which was far beyond its capacity, and at the same time, it seemed to hear the sound of a clang?
A burnt smell came out of the case, oops, the computer burned!
At this time, Old John obviously didn't know that the virus in his computer that had already been infected had already begun to attack!
Although his computer is not connected to the Internet, it is mainly used for restaurant management, and at most he plays a stand-alone game, but a few days ago, Old John's son came back and copied back a few new games with a floppy disk, and the game brought back from the university computer room was already infected with the virus.
At half past three that afternoon, a few minutes after Bush Sr.'s speech, the virus began to flare up.
In later generations, ordinary computer viruses only destroy the software, and the harm caused to the user is just to redo the system again, and some numbers are stolen.
But now, when the virus has not yet shown its power, the protection against the virus is not in place, and there are too many opportunities for the virus to take advantage of!
A few years later, when the CIH virus broke out, people realized how fragile their computer systems were, and the BIOS of the computer board that had been invaded by the virus had been corrupted and had to be updated to be used.
And now, this virus from Kevin's team is even more destructive.
already has the ability of a genius computer hacker, coupled with the inspiration of Mhammad, Kevin's virus, when it attacked, was simply earth-shattering.
Now the display,It's still a spherical CRT display,In the DOS state,Display some text only,Later,In order to facilitate the user's operation,Microsoft,Apple and other manufacturers,Have released a window system,There is a more friendly graphical interface。
And graphics,If you want to keep changing,You have to refresh,Now the most advanced 14-inch color display,The bandwidth is only about 35-45MHz,The corresponding maximum resolution is1024×768,At this time, the refresh rate is only 60Hz,And this virus,Automatically modify the display parameters of the display,The resolution has reached 1280×1024,And the refresh rate is as high as 85Hz,In this way,At least 110MHZ bandwidth is needed to use the display。
The display could not achieve such high performance, and the virus forced such a scan, as a result, the internal circuit components were overloaded, and the display soon began to overheat, and the deflection coil was sizzling as a result. (To be continued.) )