Chapter 4: The Trojan Horse
I don't know how long I was unconscious, but I was awakened by a sudden loud noise from the next bedroom.
Sun Cheng, whose consciousness was still a little confused, subconsciously groped to the side for a moment before grabbing a cold thing and bringing it to him.
Struggling to open his hazy eyes, he looked at his phone: "April 14 at 8:23 a.m., are you late?" ”
Rubbing his sore brain, Sun Cheng threw the phone to the side and closed his eyes again.
“…… I'm confused...... Mechanical life from the planet Cybertron ......"
After recalling the fragments of confused memories that still remained in his mind for a while, Sun Cheng stretched his waist and muttered, "...... It turned out to be just a dream......"
I think it's too much!
It's only in dreams that such absurd things can happen!
But it was a wonderful and incredible dream!
Sun Cheng, whose memory was surprisingly not forgotten with his wakefulness, can still clearly remember that in his dream he became 'confused', a mechanical spy from the extraterrestrial mechanical civilization - Cybertron.
Together with his partner, Barrias, he infiltrated a scientific research institute in the United States and used a computer at that scientific research institution as a port to hack into the Internet of that world.
"What a ridiculous dream, how did a man become a mechanical warrior?"
Laughing self-deprecatingly, Sun Cheng got up and got out of bed, took out the last cigarette from the shriveled cigarette pack in the corner of the computer desk and put it in his mouth, just found the lighter and was about to light it, because he heard the sound of frolicking, he couldn't help but walk to the window, looking down through the balcony, those young college students who were exuding endless youthful vitality under the bright morning sun, a trace of envy and regret flashed in their eyes.
If only everything could be done all over again!
This is a thought that has often hovered in Sun Cheng's mind in the past half a month.
Because once, he also had such a vigorous time, and had many, many friends who could accompany him all night to talk about dreams, games, or gossip.
It's a pity that now, it's all gone!
Lighting a cigarette and taking a puff mechanically, Sun Cheng turned around sadly, quietly looking at his bedroom where he was the only one left, and only sighed softly in the smoke for a while.
"Well deserved!"
Secretly scolded himself, since he was late, Sun Cheng simply didn't plan to go, and after smoking in a hurry, he noticed that he had a bad smell on his body when he drank too much last night and fell asleep, so he took the bathtub to the opposite side of the bedroom to take a shower, and after completing the washing by the way, he changed his clothes.
After finishing it, when he returned to the house, he first took a packet of instant noodles, tore it open and poured hot tea on it in his lunch box, and then came to his computer desk.
The computer desk in front of him was messy, 3 empty two taels of small soda, not yet completely dissipated the smell of wine, next to the wine bottle, a stack of cold spells, a stack of sour and hot potato shreds with only a few left, all exuding a poor sour smell, seeing Sun Cheng's heart couldn't help but feel heavy.
Sighing, after putting the instant noodle box down first, he bent down to pick up the trash can and emptied all the garbage on the table.
After doing this, he found another rag and wiped the desktop clean, and then sat down at the computer desk and clicked on the computer by the way.
"Huh? Is it dead again? ”
Seeing that his IBM notebook, which he had only bought for less than a year, actually stuck during the startup process, Sun Cheng frowned slightly.
Speaking of which, his notebook has been a lot of mistakes recently, and it often crashes for no reason, which is really confusing.
Take it to the shop for repair, the maintenance staff in the store tested it in front of him for most of the day, and didn't find out what was wrong.
Redo the system, when it was time to crash, it was still merciless, and it really broke his brain.
Generally, computers often crash for a few reasons, such as excessive dust, hardware failure, software incompatibility, or system problems.
As a senior student majoring in microelectronics at Nandu University of Technology, Sun Cheng has the habit of regularly disassembling the machine to clean up and overhaul the hardware, and his last test was just a few days ago.
As for software incompatibility, Sun Cheng really doesn't have a lot of software in his computer, and he has tried all of them, and there is no compatibility problem at all.
Then there may be only one left, the system problem.
If you think about it, it's really hard to say that there is a problem with the system.
Although most of the computers in China have updated their operating systems to Win7, Win8 and even Win10, there are still many people like Sun Cheng who are still using the XP system that has long been eliminated by the market.
Like most Chinese people,The reason why he has not chosen to upgrade the system,It's also because he's been using XP since the first time he came into contact with the computer,After getting used to the XP system,Although win7 feels a few times not difficult to get started,But in the end it's still a little awkward,And it hasn't changed。
"In the end, it's a child without a mother.,Wait and see if there's a new patch on the forum first......"
Sun Cheng turned off the laptop first, and only turned it back on after a few minutes, and as soon as he looked at the screen, his face couldn't help but be stunned.
"Hey, how can I understand all these English characters?"
He was amazed by his new discovery!
If you want to talk about your English level, Sun Cheng actually knows better than anyone else, although he passed level 1 last year and got the [National Professional English Level 1 Certificate], but it has only been half a year since the end of the exam, and he has already returned most of the English words he learned to the teacher.
Not to mention, he not only understood those English at this time, but even knew the starting principle of the program, Sun Cheng knew better than anyone else that the real level of his computer was better than Dianbai.
"This ......"
Rubbing his eyes in disbelief, and when he looked at it again, he found that it was still the case, Sun Cheng, who had the heart to give it a try, moved in his heart, and hurriedly pressed the F8 key to enter the safe mode.
The XP system installed in his computer,It's still the old version of xp collected by his former roommate.,Compared with the completely Chinese version of the system that is now popular in China,Many places are still in English.。
If it is left in normal times, even after Sun Cheng enters the safe mode of all-English annotation, he does not know how to proceed with the next step.
But now, he's in a bit of a strange state.
After entering the safe mode, after just a glance, Sun Cheng knew all the meanings and functions of the lines of pure English options, and various interpretations continued to pour out in his head.
For a while, he seemed to be a different person, his left and right hands were quickly typing on the keyboard, and he could even distract himself from controlling the mouse to select, and the operating system that was originally esoteric and difficult to understand in his eyes seemed to be completely open to him at the moment, and every character and line of code had no secrets at all.
After a burst of crackling on the keyboard, Sun Cheng finally controlled the system into a comprehensive and in-depth self-test of software and hardware.
Seeing that the self-test program had been activated, he finally came back to his senses and sat in front of the computer with a look of disbelief, staring at his hands with wide eyes, and then looking at the computer screen again, his eyes full of shock.
"This ...... Did I really do it? ”
What a strange thing that happened to him just now!
If Sun Cheng can understand the English characters in those system programs, and can barely explain the English knowledge he has learned without throwing it away, how can he explain those computer technologies?
At that moment, it was like there was a super consciousness in his brain, and even the top hackers in China did not dare to claim to have fully mastered the XP system, not only did there be no secrets at all in front of that consciousness, but could even be described as naïve and ridiculous.
What is the level of his computer technology, Sun Cheng knows better than anyone else, although he is much better than ordinary people in microelectronics, but he is not better than professionals.
Not to mention, he doesn't think it's incredible that any computer giant in the world can come up with dozens of solutions that can improve the XP system in just a minute or two of fiddling with the security mode.
was racking his brains to think about what happened to him, and the notebook in front of Sun Cheng suddenly made a tinkling sound, and he couldn't help frowning when he looked at it.
It turned out that the XP system had completed a deep self-test, but no abnormalities had been found.
He had no choice but to put it down for the time being to investigate what was going on on him, and with another crackling combo on the keyboard, he called up the abnormal crash record hidden in the system files and looked at it for a while, Sun Cheng couldn't help but sink his face, "Is there an inaccessible folder in the C drive system?" Every time my computer crashes, is it when it scans my computer files over the Internet? ”
After making trouble for so long, the feeling is that his computer is poisoned.
However, I finally figured out the reason why my laptop has been crashing frequently recently.
was about to kill the virus file in safe mode, and suddenly Sun Cheng remembered his inexplicably skyrocketing computer technology, and couldn't help but be interested in the virus in his computer that he didn't know when.
After jotting down the name of the folder where the virus was located, he directly chose to boot it from safe mode.
After the computer was turned on, Sun Cheng immediately clicked on the C drive, found the suspicious folder hidden in many system files, tried to open it, and found that access was denied.
If it had been a day ago, he really couldn't have done anything about it.
But now, Sun Cheng only frowned slightly.
Sure enough, it wasn't his delusion, when he noticed that the suspicious folder could not be accessed, Sun Cheng inexplicably came up with a variety of solutions in his head, and he was a little bit of computer basic, and after a little look, he had already determined that these solutions were indeed feasible.
He chose the easiest one at the moment, first cut out and set his computer permissions to the highest, and then access the folder, this time there was no accident, and he easily clicked on it.
“swttrs.exe? It's actually a Trojan horse......"
After checking the source code of the file, Sun Cheng's brows couldn't help but frown a little tighter, "The installation date is February 24th, isn't this the day my computer reinstalls the system?" ”
After carefully flipping through the source code for a while, his face was soon gloomy.
"Yes, the Trojan was installed on my computer with this system...... Is it ......?"
Suddenly, he bent down and rummaged through a drawer under his computer desk.
After a while, he found an old 2G USB drive and held it up in front of him, his eyes wandering.
"Hopefully, not what I thought?"
muttering slightly, Sun Cheng's face was very ugly, he was no longer in the mood to eat, he directly turned off the computer in front of him, and after putting the USB drive in his pocket, he took out his mobile phone from the bed, hurriedly picked up the key and went out.