Rewrite the Technological Landscape

Chapter 364: A Special Year

The bleak sales of computers abroad, especially in the West, is not only due to application problems, but also driven by Microsoft and Intel. After all, no matter how bleak the sales volume is, there will always be some sales, but the voices of these consumers who bought computers on the Internet are very small. The only channel that Dafeng Group can effectively speak out in the West is Fengxin, but the suppression has become more and more serious in the past two years, especially in the United States, so it is difficult to carry out large-scale marketing in the West.

In addition, most ordinary consumers can't tell the difference between computers, and they can't say anything very professional, but the appearance is very good-looking and the system is very smooth. At this time, Microsoft and Intel use media resources to push If you look at the compatibility issue of the Kunlun system, it will be difficult to open the market.

In mid-October, Fang Chen came to Meng Qian again, "Mr. Meng, Microsoft has started to put pressure on software manufacturers."

"It seems that it is difficult for IBM to come forward to play as big a role as he promised."

"Although IBM has a lot of face, Microsoft and Intel are on the other side after all. Under the premise that the situation is still unclear, they agreed to IBM to offend Microsoft and Intel. At least they did not offend IBM too much by delaying it first."

"We still have to rely on ourselves."

"Mr. Meng, although we say that our domestic market is already big enough, and if we fight for it, we can also make a splash in the Asian market, but we are a semi-open source system. If we don't get the support of more international software manufacturers, it will take a long time It’s not just about competing with Microsoft, we can’t afford it.” Fang Chen raised his concerns and said bluntly, “I still stick to my idea, system warfare is not suitable for us to fight a protracted war. The western market cannot be put there first.”

Meng Qian glanced at the calendar, today is October 15th, "Well, you go back and get a plan."

Fang Chen thought that Meng Qian supported it, and immediately nodded to prepare a plan.

Three days later, on October 18th, Fang Chen had just prepared a plan to report to Meng Qian, but happened to encounter Meng Qian who kept calling and was unable to enter the office. In the past few days, Meng Qian received a lot of requests for help Telephone.

2004 was a very special year for Meng Qian.

Because this year, the largest hacker wave and network security crisis broke out in the history of 2004. Spyware, Trojan viruses, phishing traps, Internet email viruses, and malicious programs for browsing webpages swept the world. The number of related incidents broke out in just one year It has been doubled several times, but this is still only the recorded data.

And before 2004, the pursuit of hackers was reputation, or resistance to some objects, or some kind of inner freedom, so before 2004, behaviors such as invading user privacy and deceiving users' personal property were relatively rare. Few, but since 2004, a large number of similar incidents began to erupt.

It was the high activity of hackers this year and the appearance of a bunch of security problems on the Internet that made Meng Qian start to understand hackers in depth. It also happened that on December 31, 2004, the Honker Alliance announced its disbandment, and Meng Qian learned about the 2001 The hearty hacker war that year.

This made the 23-year-old Meng Qian feel emotional. When he saw the news of the reorganization of the Honker Alliance on January 20, 2005, Meng Qian was inspired to join the Honker Alliance. From then on, Meng Qian started a special life journey.

So 2004 was Meng Qian's first year of hacking, and he really couldn't forget what happened in this year.

In October 2004, a global network security incident broke out. In China, it started at 6:00 pm on October 16, 2004 and continued until November 8. Penguin servers were continuously attacked by hackers, resulting in It can't work normally, and the system crashes many times during the period.

At the same time, many portal websites, game companies, and e-commerce websites were attacked by hackers, and even Jiangmin, who made anti-virus software, was successfully captured.

In foreign countries, a large number of MSN accounts were hacked, EABY and other e-commerce platforms collapsed, online transaction frauds were rampant, and email viruses broke out wantonly. At the end of 2004, the global network fell into a security crisis.

And almost all attacks this year came through three channels, system vulnerabilities, IE browser vulnerabilities, and mail vulnerabilities.

There is no QQ in this life, and there will be no QQ server attacks, but other domestic Internet companies should still be attacked.

In the past two days, the three major portals, Yinghaiwei, Alibaba and other companies have all been attacked, so everyone called Meng Qian for help.

Meng Qian would not refuse anyone who came, and would help anyone he could.

But the whole incident is just like the past history, and its influence is getting bigger and bigger, especially in foreign countries. After all, in this era, there are more hackers abroad.

"What's going on, why can't I log on to my MSN suddenly? What's the situation?"

"I tried several times and finally climbed up, but all my friends are gone!"

"Fuck, all my game equipment was stolen."

"All the information in my computer is gone. I want to ask if hackers can steal all my information?"

"The computer crashes as soon as I turn it on, what's going on?"

"A pop-up window popped up on the computer for no reason, and I couldn't even close it."

"My hard drives are all locked"

"Why did I pay on ebay but the other party didn't receive the money? But my money has been deducted, is there anyone like me?"

"It's not that the other party didn't receive the money, our money went to another place, and someone has already exposed it on the Internet."

"What about the cheated money? Does the bank care? Does the police care?"

"The police seem like they're a little bit helpless with this kind of cybercrime."

"Don't worry, everyone. I heard that Microsoft is developing a patch. It should be done."

As time went by, more and more incidents broke out, and netizens began to seek help online. However, in such a big environment, some different voices appeared.

"Don't use the IE browser, use the Kunpeng browser, which has an Internet protection mode."

"The firewall that comes with the Kunlun system is really powerful. I clicked on a small website yesterday, and immediately warned of danger."

"Not only reminding, but also intercepting."

"Fengxin has not had any problems so far."

As the first year of Meng Qian's hacker, Meng Qian can now recite the mainstream Trojan horses and mainstream viruses in 2004, and he is also familiar with the mainstream viruses and principles of later generations. Although it is impossible to achieve absolute defense, after all, this field It cannot be perfected by oneself.

Using Dafeng Group's products will also encounter various attacks, but at least compared to Microsoft at this time, whether it is a firewall or a browser, Dafeng Group's advantages are obvious.

However, the user base of the Kunlun system abroad is too small, coupled with Microsoft's deliberate suppression, the topic of the security of the Kunlun system that has slowly spread in China is still a state that almost no one knows abroad.

"Let's take the initiative to push at this time." Fang Chen suggested looking at the market report from the West.

Meng Qian thought for a while, "I want to push, but push from a different angle, to push the panic in the West."

"Huh? Why?"

"Our push for the Kunlun system lacks internal impetus, but panic is different. Western netizens have a spontaneous impetus, and this kind of impetus is difficult for Microsoft to suppress. Things that follow the trend are the easiest to do."

"But if you just promote panic, the most you can do is to scold Microsoft a few words, and then urge Microsoft's patch package. After Microsoft comes out with the patch package, things will pass slowly, and users can't really grab it. Microsoft won't let it go."

"Microsoft patch?" Meng Qian couldn't help laughing, "Do you still remember the latest patch released by Microsoft in the first half of the year?"

Fang Chen recalled a bit and understood Meng Qian's meaning, "Do you think so?"

In the past, Microsoft launched a patch package, and then hacking incidents increased exponentially.

In this life, Meng Qian wants to see what changes Microsoft can make.

"As you said, most of the users who are hacked have their own responsibilities. The habitual thinking of users will not go to Microsoft to settle accounts, and even think that Microsoft is also a victim, so after Microsoft's patch package is released, even if the effect is not good, It can also reduce user losses by reminding users of their habits.

At this time, we just rely on the small user base in foreign countries to promote how good our products are, and it may not necessarily have good results. Even if there are effects, everyone will become more aware of them later, and may not care so much about our advantages. , so the first step now is to make things bigger.

I bet Microsoft's robbed, no bullets. "

Thanks for the reward from the old wolf during the tribulation period! Thanks to RyanLy for the reward!

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