"Strange, who changed my desktop icon?"
Early in the morning, Tang En turned on his computer to prepare a document.
But strangely, when he turned on his computer, he found that all the icons had changed into pandas.
Oh right, the pandas were holding three incense sticks.
At first, Tang En thought it was a prank by his girlfriend and did not care about it.
Because when he clicked on the icons, he could still continue using the program.
But when he finished the document and wanted to change the icons back to their original shortcut icons, Tang En found that he could not do so no matter how hard he tried.
"I would like to ask everyone, how can I change my desktop icon back to its original icon?"
Logging into his instant messenger, Tang En asked for help in a group chat.
With this, the group chat became lively.
"Damn, I also want to ask this question."
"Yes, yes, yes, I also want to know. I have tried dozens of methods, but the icons just can't be changed back."
"Although these pandas are cute, I actually don't like it when the whole screen is filled with pandas."
"It can't be, yours is also a panda icon?"
"That's right. Yours too?"
"Isn't this..."
Everyone started to send out screenshots of their desktop icons.
In the end, they found that all the netizens who wanted to change their icons back were all using the Panda Burning Incense icon.
"Damn, why are all our icons the same?"
Tang En's heart skipped a beat. He felt that this was not normal.
One must know that if it was a prank by his girlfriend, it would not be the same for others.
Could it be that changing the panda icon was a popular prank recently?
Of course, this was impossible.
Since it was impossible.
Then, the logical explanation for all the netizens' icons being changed to panda icons was that they had all been infected with a virus.
"Damn, could we have been infected with a virus?"
"It feels like it."
"Ah, ah, ah, I have to use an anti-virus software to kill the virus."
But it was a pity.
Even though the netizens had installed anti-virus software on their computers, they could not kill the virus no matter how hard they tried.
The entire screen was filled with pandas.
Even the anti-virus software's icon had changed to the Panda Burning Incense icon.
[Latest news: A new virus, Panda Burning Incense, has appeared on the Windows system.]
[Panda Burning Incense has infected 1 million Windows system computers worldwide.]
[This is currently the fastest spreading computer virus in the world.]
Compared to the general public, the media had also begun to report on the Panda Burning Incense virus.
Experts expressed that they hoped that users would download the latest anti-virus software and virus library and take precautions.
Although he said so, the Panda Burning Incense did not slow down in the slightest. Instead, it began to accelerate.
When the media first revealed that he had infected one million units, he had infected three million units in just one night.
The next day, the Panda Burning Incense had increased this number to 7 million units.
"F * ck, what kind of virus is this? It's so fierce."
"I don't know, but this virus is too strong. I was infected too."
"It can't be. You're infected with the virus too."
"If you don't believe me, I'll send you a screenshot of my desktop."
Hence …
Thousands of screenshots of computer desktops infected by the Panda Burning Incense were uploaded onto the internet like snowflakes.
How should he put it? Things like viruses were really hard to guard against.
Although many people had listened to the advice of the experts and downloaded the latest virus library, it was still not enough.
However, they realized that even if they downloaded it, it was useless.
Those who were supposed to fall for it still fell for it.
"Everyone, let me tell you, it's better to go online less these days. If you want to go online, go to an internet cafe. "
"Why?"
"That Panda Burning Incense is too powerful. As long as you go online, there's a high chance of you getting infected."
"Don't we have anti-virus software? What's there to be afraid of?"
"If the anti-virus software is so effective, do you think the Panda Burning Incense can infect so many computers? Look, it has already infected 10 million units. "
"F * ck, it was only 7 million yesterday."
"Let me tell you a piece of news. Don't tell anyone else."
"What news?"
"It's said that all the anti-virus software companies in the world have no way to deal with this virus."
"F * ck, it can't be."
Although this was just a piece of news and was not to be believed.
However, for those users who had updated the virus library, they could not help but believe it.
If it wasn't.
Then why were they still infected after updating the virus library?
… …
"Steve, what's going on with that Panda Burning Incense?"
"Bill, don't be anxious. Listen to me."
"How can I not be anxious? This virus has already infected 20 million computers. If I'm not anxious, it will infect hundreds of millions of computers."
Before this, Bill was still very calm. But just a few days after he left the company, a super virus broke out.
At that time, Bill thought that with Steve's ability and the strength of the world's major anti-virus software companies, they would be able to deal with it.
But he did not expect this virus to be so powerful that Microsoft and the major anti-virus software companies were unable to do anything about it.
"Bill, at the moment, this virus only maliciously changes the shortcut icon of the computer. It won't cause too much harm to the computer for now."
"I just want to know when this virus can be eliminated."
Bill naturally knew that this virus did not have much destructive power.
At the same time, he also vaguely believed that this virus was created by Huanyu Technologies.
However, it was one thing to have suspicions, and another to have evidence.
But now was not the time to be suspicious. The biggest problem now was to eliminate this virus.
If not.
Even if this virus did not have much destructive power, it would still have a huge impact on Windows.
Especially now.
Huanyu Technologies had already used their WeChat Moments and Huanyu Videos to attack Windows in public opinion.
Also, they had invited experts to analyze it.
A group of experts believed that the reason why Windows was threatened by such a super virus was related to their system's security.
Windows was indeed doing well in terms of ecology, but their system's security had always been their weakness.
But on the other hand, Huanyu's system was different.
Huanyu's system was a PC operating system based on Linux. Its system's security level was higher than Windows'.
Of course, this was bullsh * t, or it was advertising for Huanyu's system.
But it did not matter if it was bullsh * t, as long as it was useful.
Just like now, many people were still arguing that Huanyu's system had many viruses.
But compared to the Windows super virus, Panda Burning Incense, it paled in comparison.
Because until now, Huanyu's system had only been infected by a few hundred thousand viruses.
But Windows's virus had already exceeded 20 million.
Fortunately, this virus's destructive power was not that strong.
Some experts estimated that if this virus was slightly more destructive, the global losses would reach tens of billions.
"Bill, listen to me. We have already contacted all the major system security companies in the world to conduct research on this virus."
"Is this virus that strong?"
Steve smiled bitterly, "Bill, this is the first time we have encountered such a virus. This virus is different from traditional viruses. Although its destructive power is not that strong, this was done on purpose by the creator. It can completely make the system unable to operate normally. "
"And then?"
"Its uniqueness lies in its horrifying transmission power. As long as a user is infected with this virus, it will automatically spread to other users on the Internet. In addition, it also has the disgusting ability of self-replication. After killing one, it will become another. Moreover, his replication was not a complete copy of himself, but a copy of another variant. With this move, the anti-virus software was helpless against it. Unless, we can figure out how many variants it has … but this will take time. What we are worried about is that in the time it takes us to research all the variants of this virus, the virus's infectious power could infect 50 million computers around the world. "
With such a large scale, even if this virus did not have any destructive power, just thinking about it was terrifying.
Moreover, who knew if this virus would always be like this.
If there was a highly destructive variant, then it would be a disaster for Windows.
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