"You have an email. Please check it!" Biggie, who was working, saw the notification from his mailbox. He clicked on it and found an email titled "Hongmeng Bank's credit card list for June. Please repay your credit card in time."
"F * ck, credit card list? Since when did I get a credit card from Hongmeng Bank? " Biggie was stunned when he saw this. He suddenly felt uneasy. Could it be that someone had stolen his identity to apply for a credit card? If that was the case, he would be in big trouble!
Biggie immediately opened the email and found that it was very formal. There were a lot of legal documents inside, which made the notice seem more authentic.
Therefore, Biggie downloaded the list without hesitation, intending to see what he had bought.
However, after the list was downloaded and Biggie double-clicked to open it, the computer did not respond. No files were opened.
"What the hell is going on?" Biggie was stunned. He thought that the system was too slow or that he had failed to click. He double-clicked a few more times until the screen suddenly turned black. The computer had shut down on its own.
"What's going on?" Biggie had an ominous feeling. He quickly rebooted the computer, but the system could not be opened. All he could see was a bunch of garbled codes on the screen.
Biggie had no choice but to reinstall the system. However, Biggie felt that he was relatively lucky because his main documents were placed on a non-system drive like the D drive.
Even if he reinstalled the system, his important work documents would not be lost.
However, after Biggie reinstalled the system and rebooted it, his entire body went limp and he collapsed on the chair.
That was because the entire D drive had been erased … Not only the D drive, but the E and F drives as well. They were all empty. All his important work documents were gone!
In June 2002, a virus called "Credit Card" swept the entire Internet. Many users who saw this email saying that their credit cards were problematic would uncontrollably open the downloaded files and be hit by a bullet. Not only did the entire computer need to be reinstalled, but all the non-system drive files were also deleted. It was a clean slate.
In a short week, more than three hundred thousand people were infected. Many of them were office workers. All their important work documents were on these computers. The deletion of these documents was the death of these poor office workers.
The office workers who worked through the night were lucky. Some office workers were fired because they lost important documents that could not be replaced. There were even a few office workers and an entrepreneur who chose to commit suicide because they lost important documents and had to compensate for the huge loss.
These incidents quickly attracted the media's attention. Then, the media naturally discovered that only the Hongmeng System was attacked by the virus. Windows was unaffected. Many people's computers were fine even if they downloaded the files.
Therefore, many media outlets began to brag about how awesome the Windows system's security system was and how vulnerable the Hongmeng System's security system was. If they did not want to be attacked by the virus, they had to change, etc.
Many users were so scared that they changed their operating systems overnight. Some companies even changed their operating systems to Windows.
Because of this good news, Microsoft's share prices shot up by 30%. Within a week, it rose to 200 billion USD. Kenneth rewarded his Young Crouching Dragon and Phoenix by giving him a promotion. The entire Microsoft is in a celebratory mood.
On the other hand, the Daqian reacted quickly. On the eighth day after the virus appeared, the government released an anti-virus patch.
The reason why the patch was released so quickly was because this virus wasn't anything new. It was just a variant of an old worm virus that was quickly modified and added some programs to create a virus that targeted the Hongmeng System.
Although this is fast, the old virus is in the virus database, and it is easy to target it. That's why the Daqian released the anti-virus patch quickly and used the internet to notify all Hongmeng System users of the patch.
These users only need to click 'confirm', and the Hongmeng System will automatically install the anti-virus patch.
When the users saw the installation prompt of this kill patch, their originally anxious hearts calmed down again. After all, reinstalling the system would waste a lot of time and energy. More importantly, they had to re-experiment and adapt to the new system, so many people gave up the idea of changing the system after seeing the kill patch. Soon, the situation stabilized.
Although Da Qian could guess who had released the virus, he couldn't produce any evidence. All he could do was to be vigilant and strengthen the Hongmeng System's virus defense function and so on.
Logically, this incident should be over. Microsoft's share prices will increase, and Hongmeng will lose some users. Microsoft will make a small profit from this incident.
However, the development of events was often not something that ordinary people could predict.
On 28 June 2002, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced they will send a team of auditors to audit Enron's first-quarter financial statements.
On July 5th, a website called Street published a shocking piece of news. After the US Securities and Exchange Commission audited Enron's data, they found serious problems with Enron's first-quarter financial report. Enron did not make profits of 320 million USD. Instead, they made a loss of 560 million USD.
On 12 July, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission announced they will enter Enron and conduct a thorough audit of Enron's financial statements for the past ten years.
On 15 July, the Chief Financial Officer of a security company admitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission that Enron had been creating fake financial statements since 1995 to cover up Enron's losses.
According to the financial statements, Enron's annual profits are more than 1 billion USD. But in reality, Enron's annual losses are more than 1 billion USD. But these losses are covered up by the fake profits from various related transactions and loopholes in the company's financial system.
On 22 July, Enron's Chairman, Kenneth, was released on bail to await his trial. At the same time, Enron's shares fell from 32 USD to less than 1 USD.
On 23 July, the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation team entered Microsoft. This news shocked the market, and Microsoft's market value fell to 50 billion USD. The entire market is in shock.
August 22nd. Kenneth was in court for the first time. He admitted that he had falsified the financial reports. Both Enron and Microsoft had falsified their financial reports.
On that day, Microsoft's share prices fell below 30 billion USD.
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