People who have lived in previous lives are no strangers to Internet viruses and computer viruses. Even people who like to browse messy websites have themselves been infected by Internet viruses or computer viruses.
It’s just that the viruses that most people have seen are Trojan viruses. Trojan viruses refer to a piece of malicious code with special functions hidden in normal code.
Generally, backdoor programs have special functions such as destroying and deleting files, sending passwords, recording keyboards, or attacking the operating system, and have the ability to remotely control computers.
The most commonly used method in the past life was to use password viruses to steal user accounts. Among user accounts, game accounts accounted for the highest number of stolen accounts. Of course, in the era of the QQ outbreak, it was common for QQ accounts to be stolen.
People who do this kind of thing are basically seeking profit, and it is basically a low-level hacker behavior. There are also many Trojan programs that just lurk, and there will be no abnormalities under normal circumstances.
Only when hacking is carried out, will it be activated by hackers and used as a meat machine to launch network attacks on specific targets. DDOS attacks are such an attack method, directly targeting the other party's network.
Since Trojan viruses are the most common and least technical viruses among network viruses, the security software of major computer security companies also has the highest ability to identify such viruses.
Of course, some security software companies, based on their own interests, identify files without Trojan viruses as the possibility of Trojan viruses, and prevent users from using the software or opening the files.
In the early days of the development of security software, many Trojan viruses were actually created by security software companies themselves in order to sell more security software.
But there is no direct evidence to prove this. After all, if it is caught cheating, then this security software company will not be able to mess around, and it will directly face sky-high claims and closure.
Since the emergence of free security software, viruses seem to have suddenly disappeared from people's awareness, changing the previous situation of flooding, which has confirmed the above situation from the side.
However, there are also some viruses that are very harmful. For example, the "Panda Burning Incense" virus is very destructive to computer hardware and causes great losses to users.
There are also viruses that are specifically looking for money, such as "ransomware", which openly asks the attacker for money. If the money is not given, the password will not be unlocked. Even after a certain period of time, the file will be destroyed.
"Ransomware" is actually a cryptographic virus. The virus itself comes with a public key and a private key to encrypt user files. If the user does not pay for the private key, the file cannot be opened.
Of course, today's viruses are much simpler and cruder, and they basically have the mentality of a saboteur, and have no particularly obvious benefit orientation. Many are even hackers' curiosity or the mentality of fooling ordinary netizens.
This global outbreak of viruses falls into this category. The only function of this virus is to turn infected files into garbled characters. Although it does not have as obvious benefits as "ransomware viruses", it causes even greater damage.
The virus, which is called a "garbled virus" in the industry, only took just one week from the time it was first released to infecting tens of millions of computers, and it spread very quickly.
In fact, the prototype of the virus appeared very early. As early as the 1960s, programmers at Bell Labs played a computer game called the DARWIN game.
It is a program in which everyone compiles a program, then inputs it into the computer to run, attack each other, and try to destroy other people's programs. This program is the prototype of computer viruses, but people did not realize it at the time.
The real computer virus is believed to have appeared in the 1970s, or from Bell Labs. It is just the unintentional result of work errors. However, since then, computer viruses have increased significantly.
However, viruses at this stage are basically designed to play tricks on others, and rarely maliciously damage other people's computer software. There is no deeper understanding of this, and they are not classified as "viruses".
The computer academic community truly realized the existence of computer viruses in 1983, when DR FRED KYLE proposed the concept of computer viruses at a computer security symposium and then conducted experimental demonstrations.
Since then, computer viruses have been widely recognized in the computer field. However, since there was no Internet at this time, encountering computer viruses in actual work was relatively rare.
This is why the security protection software launched by Golden Shield Technology is basically only used by its own brother companies, and very few other companies purchase it. This is because everyone thinks it is out of reach and is unwilling to spend the extra cost.
Even enterprises have this understanding of computer viruses, so ordinary computer users will not spend a sum of money to purchase security protection software.
Therefore, the operation of Jindun Technology Company has always been tepid. When the world knew them, it was the Global Computer Network Security Forum that they took the lead in organizing, but they were basically well-known in the industry.
If it were not supported by the business of brother companies and the amount of external business they received, it would be impossible to maintain normal operations of the company.
Faced with this situation of Golden Shield Technology Company, Zhao Yiyi himself is not too anxious. As long as the Internet enters thousands of households, computer viruses will naturally enter the field of vision of ordinary people and cause them certain losses.
What he didn't expect was that after such a long time, the hackers still didn't do anything significant. It wasn't until November this year that the "file garbled virus" broke out.
What's even more interesting is that the period when the virus broke out was the period when the Global Computer Network Security Forum organized by Golden Shield Technology Company was held, and the two collided.
This caused the security forum, which was originally only somewhat influential in the industry, to instantly attract the attention of computer users around the world. Some media even directly asked, can the companies participating in the security forum solve this problem immediately
You must know that this attack is on files. Both corporate users and individual users have been attacked. The losses caused cannot be calculated yet, but it is certain that it has hindered the operations of many enterprises or affected personal work.
There are many giant companies participating in this security forum, such as Fanxing Software Company, Xinghan Technology Company and Qianxun Technology Company, as well as Jindun Technology Company, which is known as an expert in the field of network security.
As for other small businesses or unknown companies, the number is even greater. No one expects these small businesses to solve this garbled virus incident.
They set their sights on Golden Shield Technology Company and Fanxing Software Company. Since the former is considered an expert in the field of network security, they must let others see their capabilities.
As for the latter, although it does not have network security-related business, it is too big and has too much influence. Out of consciousness, everyone thinks that Fanxing Software Company should have this strength.
If Fanxing Software Company is really given time to research this virus, maybe they can really solve it, but the most important indicator of solving the virus is timeliness. By the time they figure it out, the day lily will probably be cold.
As for Xinghan Technology Company and Qianxun Technology Company, which have been very popular in recent years, everyone has no special expectations, because in the traditional software field, there is still a huge gap between their strength and Fanxing Software Company.
At least that's what people in the industry think, and the operating system owned by Fanxing Software Company is now the mainstream operating system used in the world, and their word processing software also has the largest share in the world.
Garbled viruses are directly related to both of these. If Fanxing Software Company cannot effectively solve this incident, it is likely to make consumers distrust it.
As for those niche operating systems or word processing software, this time they are not within the attack range of garbled viruses at all. Because they are not influential enough, hackers are too lazy to spend energy.
Of course, the reason why Fanxing Software Company is mentioned is, on the one hand, because of its great influence and its direct relationship with their products. On the other hand, it is not because other operating system companies and word processing software companies are behind it.
Anyway, this responsibility has been placed on Fanxing Software Company. The eyes of the world are turned to Fanxing Software Company to see what they will do next. Some even infected users are not worried when they see this situation. .
Because the software services of Fanxing Software Company did not say that virus infection was not within the scope of their services, it meant that this virus incident was also within the software services of Fanxing Software Company they purchased.
If Fanxing Software Company cannot solve this problem well, it may face a collective lawsuit, and a sky-high compensation fee will definitely be indispensable.
Those users whose losses were not large were not anxious, and even hoped that Fanxing Software Company could not solve the problem, so that they could receive a compensation fee.
Fanxing Software Company naturally knows what these people are planning, and the external voice is that they will work with Golden Shield Technology Company to handle this matter, and only need to give them three days.
After the statement was issued, Fanxing Software Company directly handed over the matter to Golden Shield Technology Company to handle it. In terms of technical strength in the field of network security, Fanxing Software Company believed that it was still a little behind.
And this time is also the opportunity for Golden Shield Technology Company to show its face. Even if Fanxing Software Company has the strength to deal with it, it must give face to its brother companies.
The Golden Shield Technology Company, which received this task, naturally needed to understand the ins and outs of the file garbled virus, such as when it appeared, how it spread, and when it started to break out.
More importantly, how many users are affected globally, what methods can be used to temporarily prevent the virus from continuing to spread, and finally the specific degree of harm of the virus can be confirmed.
After these things are clarified, we can solve this garbled virus. The former reflects the virus tracing capabilities of Golden Shield Technology Company, and the latter reflects the virus analysis and processing capabilities of Golden Shield Technology Company.
In fact, the file garbled virus this time was nothing to Golden Shield Technology Company. They analyzed it clearly through the background intelligent network security system in the first place.
And there is a background intelligent network security system that automatically generates a special killing and recovery program. These only happen in just a few minutes, and the processing speed is very fast.
Since it happened during the Global Cyber Security Forum, Golden Shield Technology was not the only company trying to deal with the virus on-site. Other cyber security companies also wanted to take this opportunity to become famous.
Therefore, Golden Shield Technology Company did not consider delaying time, but if the time was too short, the outside world would become suspicious. However, Golden Shield Technology Company still announced the transmission route, characteristics and extent of damage of the virus within half a day.
This speed is actually quite fast, at least that’s what the outside world thinks. Other network security companies didn’t even fart during this period of time.
When Jindun Technology Company released this information to the outside world, it really made the outside world look at Jindun Technology Company's strength in the field of security protection with admiration.
According to the information released by Golden Shield Technology Company, the virus is actually spread through email. As long as the user clicks on the problematic email, it will be automatically downloaded to the local computer and lurk.
However, the network mailboxes here do not include those of Qianxun Technology Company, because Qianxun Technology Company uses the network security service suite of Golden Shield Technology Company, which has already started to detect and block problematic emails when users upload them.
Therefore, hackers spread the virus through the products of other email service providers. After hearing the news about Golden Shield Technology, users around the world admitted this on online forums.
This is because users who use the email system of Qianxun Technology Company are not affected by the virus at all, but users who use other email services have been affected one after another.
After this news was made public around the world, Qianxun Technology Company's email application users suddenly increased sharply, because when everyone was in danger, they could only work through Qianxun Technology Company's email system.
Qianxun Technology's email is basically free for individual users, but there are limits on the number of emails and capacity. If you want to expand the capacity, you need to pay additional fees.
However, as long as emails are used normally, the number and capacity of emails are more than enough for users, and there is no need to purchase additional services.
As for corporate users, they can use Qianxun Technology's corporate email service to build their own company's exclusive email system, with a dedicated email address suffix, and also have additional services provided by Qianxun Technology.
It's just that the promotion of their corporate email systems was not particularly smooth before. Most companies are still accustomed to using personal email systems to send and receive emails.
Those large enterprises prefer to build their own internal email systems. They may feel that the security of using Qianxun Technology's corporate email may not be guaranteed.
But in this virus incident, not only individual email users were affected, but also the email systems built by large enterprises themselves, and once infected, the entire company was infected.
There have even been situations where the entire army was wiped out, which has brought huge losses to the entire enterprise, seriously affected the normal operation of the enterprise, and some enterprises have even basically been shut down.
After hearing the spread method announced by Golden Shield Technology, many individual email users and large enterprises regretted it, especially large enterprises that built their own email systems. The lessons were too tragic.
Domestic personal email users and corporate users basically use the email system of Qianxun Technology Company, because they trust Qianxun Technology Company much more than foreign companies.
In fact, when large foreign companies do this, they still think that Qianxun Technology Company is a foreign company. They are afraid that their business secrets will be stolen, and they are wary of Qianxun Technology Company.
Therefore, the file garbled virus this time basically does not exist in China. The ones that are more affected are foreign users, especially corporate users, who have a very high proportion of infections.
This is because Qianxun Technology Company has a lot of business around the world, and if you want to apply for these businesses, you must register an email account for Qianxun Technology Company.
Therefore, in the field of personal email, Qianxun Technology's share is very high, but the number of corporate users is very low, even to the point of being ignored.
After Jindun Technology announced how the garbled file virus spread, the number of companies around the world that applied for Qianxun Technology's corporate email boxes experienced explosive growth.
Those who had not been tricked felt sad when they saw the tragic situation of those large companies. Before it was their turn, they quickly spent money to buy the corporate email service of Qianxun Technology Company. The cost seemed to be It cannot be saved.
Those large enterprises that were affected by the scam had to choose the email service of Qianxun Technology Company. On the one hand, they had self-doubt about the security of the email they built themselves, and they had to think about whether it was necessary to build it themselves.
On the other hand, they must find temporary substitutes. After all, the company still needs to operate, and now email is one of the most important means of business management. Without email, many things will be very troublesome.
Seeing this situation, Golden Shield Technology originally planned to release a special killing tool the next morning and promote its personal network security protection software. This was the result of their deliberate delay.
It's just that Qianxun Technology Company, which has also benefited greatly, needs Golden Shield Technology Company to give them some time to let their email business develop better.
If Golden Shield Technology's processing speed is so fast, it will give the outside world the illusion that there is no need to apply for Qianxun Technology's email at all, and only need to install Golden Shield Technology's network security protection software.
In that case, only Golden Shield Technology Company would benefit, so Golden Shield Technology Company deliberately delayed it for a day. On the afternoon of the third day, it began to announce that the special killing tool had been developed and integrated into their personal network security protection software.
This is already the limit that Golden Shield Technology Company has given Qianxun Technology Company, because there are so many companies participating in the Global Cyber Security Forum this time, and if it continues, other companies may be the first to take advantage.
Even if the time given to Qianxun Technology Company is just over a day, Qianxun Technology Company's email market share has been greatly improved.
In the field of personal email services, their market share has increased from more than 70% to about 96%, almost dominating the market. Other companies that provide personal email services have suffered.
In the field of enterprise email services, their market share has increased directly from about 20% to about 85% globally, and it continues to increase.
These data only occurred in just over a day. If it was an ordinary enterprise and the number of users increased so much, their email system would probably collapse.
Fortunately, Xinghan Technology Company has a large number of data centers around the world. Qianxun Technology Company temporarily purchased a large number of Xinghan Technology Company's cloud computing services to support this surge in users.
On the afternoon of the third day, Golden Shield Technology Company officially announced the special killing tool and promoted its personal security protection software to users around the world.
It said that downloading and using their personal security protection software can also help users detect viruses and recover infected files, and the personal security protection software is free to use.
The personal security protection software of Jindun Technology Company adopts two operating methods. The first is charging. If the user purchases VIP service, no advertisements will appear.
The second type is free, but users must be able to accept the advertising pop-ups of Jindun Technology Company. After all, Jindun Technology Company also needs to eat, and users who want to use it for free should understand.
Originally, Zhao Yi asked Jindun Technology Company to use a completely free service, and then relied on its own application mall to make profits from application promotion and downloads, which was to make profits from software companies.
However, Fanxing Software Company plans to adopt a free model for its new operating system and rely on the software application mall to make profits. This creates a conflict of interest with Golden Shield Technology Company.
In the final analysis, the personal security software of Golden Shield Technology Company also needs to rely on the operating system to survive. In this regard, it cannot compete with Fanxing Software Company, so they can only compromise on their own.
Fortunately, if the number of users of Jindun Technology Company is sufficient, then obtaining income through advertising is also a good choice. If you do not want to be disturbed by advertising, you can also purchase VIP, which will also bring income to Jindun Technology Company.
When Golden Shield Technology promoted its personal network security software to the world and determined that the software could help users solve the garbled file virus, the number of downloads by users around the world increased dramatically.
On that day, the number of users who downloaded and used personal network security software worldwide reached 30 million. In just one week, it reached hundreds of millions. The development speed is very fast.
And when enough people have installed it, the individual user will find that his relatives and friends are using the Golden Shield personal network security software on their computers, and he will most likely install it himself.
So in the next month, their number of global users exceeded the 1 billion mark, their market share reached 100%, and they became the absolute ruler in this field.
Among them, the proportion of users who purchase their VIP services has reached 60%, because the price set by Jindun Technology Company is not particularly high, and the annual service fee is only 10 US dollars.
In fact, in terms of revenue, if you choose the advertising model, Golden Shield Technology Company will gain more revenue. After all, the price of an advertising pop-up window is not cheap, after all, the number of users is there.
In this case, the reason for launching two different service models is mainly to give users more choices and improve user experience. After all, some people like free services, while others do not like ads.
Such a high number of users will bring annual revenue of more than 10 billion US dollars to Jindun Technology Company in the future, and this is just the income brought by personal security protection software.
Their enterprise security protection system has also achieved tremendous development around the world. Although it is not as exaggerated as the 1 billion individual users, the number of users using their enterprise security protection software system worldwide has reached 5 million.
Their enterprise security protection software systems are basically used by small and micro enterprises. Because they only provide software services and do not have related hardware support, the price is relatively cheap.
But even so, the average fee per company has reached 20,000 yuan per year. The charging standard is determined based on the size of the company. This business alone brings them 100 billion yuan in annual revenue.
For medium and large enterprises, they choose their highest level security protection services, which are not only software support, but also a huge number of hardware products. The total revenue of this area reaches about 200 billion yuan per year.
After experiencing this garbled file virus incident, the world has become aware of the dangers of deadly software viruses, and computer security has received unprecedented attention from users around the world.
Golden Shield Technology Company is the company that benefited the most from this incident. In an instant, it has grown directly from a relatively well-known company in the industry to a giant company in this field.
Originally, there were not many professional companies in the field of computer security protection, because no one realized how big the market was and had not made relevant preparations.
After the virus incident came out, other software companies also became aware of the market prospects. However, by the time they wanted to enter this business, Golden Shield Technology Company had already fully occupied this market.
Seeing such a situation, many companies' newly ignited ambitions were extinguished in an instant, regardless of the technical gap between themselves and Jindun Science and Education Company.
It is very difficult to grab a piece of the market that has been occupied by Golden Shield Technology Company. The first-mover advantage has been fully demonstrated in the Internet era.
Otherwise, it would not have occupied almost the entire market in just one month. And judging from the performance of Golden Shield Technology Company in solving this virus incident, they believe that they will not be able to compete technically for the time being.
Therefore, self-aware companies and individuals have stopped and are ready to give up this market, but not all companies and individuals are so willing to give up.
It's just that if you want to cut off the flesh of Golden Shield Technology Company, there is no chance under normal circumstances, so they used some underhanded tricks. (End of chapter)