Chapter 198 The Only Void
Lin Hong connected to the chat system in the official BBS and found that the other members were in it.
[MAX: STONE, you're finally on.]
[STONE: Sorry, I came back late today. How's the preparation going?
[MAX: It's all ready. Just wait for the time to send the announcement. Go to the background to see if there is anything that needs to be modified.]
Lin Hong then switched to the BBS backstage and looked at the announcement that had been written for a long time. He had no objection. Let's follow this. After all, many things have been discussed before.
Back to BBS, Lin Hong remembered the previous email, so he asked: [STONE: What is in the email attachment sent by Pison?]
[Pison: The EMAIL I sent? No, I didn't send an email.
When Lin Hong saw his words, he couldn't help but be stunned. He just wanted to ask again, but he saw Matthew input: [MAX: It's time! I'm going to make an announcement. Let's go back to BBS and actively answer everyone's questions. If there is anything difficult to answer, leave it all to me!]
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On the SAM official BBS, there are nearly 200 people waiting for the arrival of 12 p.m.
When the minute hand and the hour hand coincided with the vertical point to the top, Matthew finally sent out the long-drafted announcement.
There are three main points in the content of this upgrade.
The first is to introduce a network relay server, which can be an improved calculator or a CDAD device developed by SAM itself. After upgrading, you can install the software by accessing the relay server. Very convenient.
and. CDAD equipment will be officially sold at a preferential price, and the profits will be used for the construction of the association. The SAM Association calls on major schools across the country to set up SAM Association branches in the school. Once it is confirmed to be successfully established, SAM will give away a set of CDAD equipment for free and provide long-term technical support.
Second, the latest cracking program is more thorough, introducing the compressor system, which greatly improves the utilization efficiency of flash memory. It is almost equivalent to using technology to double the storage space.
Third, the SAM Association announced the improvement plan of the calculator, calling on users who have the ability, conditions and understand technology to do the transformation by themselves, and then provide relay services for everyone. The SAM Association will confirm these users and give them advanced user authentication. If there is anything new to be released in the future, it will give priority to these people to test.
In addition, students at Boston Latin School will be the first to experience the effect of CDAD equipment in front of the school canteen. The CDAD device has been installed for a day.
It is worth mentioning that an advertising system will be integrated in the latest cracking program. SAM reminds everyone that if you care about this user very much. Then you can choose not to upgrade, or after upgrading, run the restore program to restore.
As soon as this announcement was released, it immediately aroused a heated discussion.
"Network transit function? That's so cool!"
"Exquire the master, does this mean that our calculator is directly connected to the Internet?"
"How much is a set of CDAD equipment? I'm more interested!"
"We are already preparing to set up a branch of the association. How can we get the official confirmation?"
"I'm not throwing cold water on everyone. However, I still want to remind everyone that please remember what festival it is today.
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There are more posts in BBS immediately, and there will be several new posts or replies as soon as they are refreshed.
Members of the SAM Association have to be busy answering a variety of strange questions, some of which are related to specific operations and finances, are specifically answered by Matthew.
Although all members of the SAM Association responded patiently on BBS, many members still don't believe this, because this function is too unbelievable. They don't believe that the SAM Association can really do this function at all.
The craze on BBS lasted until two o'clock in the evening.
SAM Group of Seven finally returned to the chat room.
[MAX: It seems that the publicity effect this time is not bad. I can't wait to see their reaction in school tomorrow!]
[Eagle: Matthew, is it appropriate to priced our CDAD equipment at $150? Will it be a little expensive?
[MAX: Is this still expensive? I was going to pay 200 dollars! Don't you think that the cost of this small thing is more than 120 US dollars, not to mention the time and energy invested in development.]
[Torch: I also think the pricing is a little too cheap. If it is a commercial product, it will at least double. The technical content contained in this equipment is not generally high. I dare say that other commercial companies do not have such products.]
Torch is a person who has participated in the work, and has the most say in this regard.
[Left hand: Yes. If the project itself is not non-profit, this pricing is definitely not appropriate. Not to mention anything else, STONE's infrared wireless protocol, if you use another company's agreement, you are likely to pay the authorization fee.]
[Torch: STONE, have you applied for a patent for this agreement? If not, you have to apply immediately. The last time Mr. Wozniak specifically proposed it, it has attracted the attention of many companies.]
[STONE: Well, I have applied.]
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After they chatted for a while, Pison suddenly said: [Pison: I also received two emails.]
Lin Hong suddenly remembered the previous email. Pison said that he had never sent an email, which made him feel a little strange. Now he also received it, so he asked: [STONE: Was it sent by Arthur and Matthew?]
He asked this question, but he didn't get an answer for a long time.
[STONE: Pison, are you still there?]
At this time, Lin Hong noticed that Pison, Matthew, Arthur and Torch were all directly offline. Only he and his left hand are online.
[Left hand: What's wrong? Why did you leave all of a sudden?
[STONE: There seems to be something wrong. Have you received the email?
[Left hand: I don't know. I haven't looked at the mailbox yet. What email?
Before Lin Hong could answer, his door was knocked.
Lin Hong opened the door and saw Arthur standing outside. The first thing he said to him was: "That email is a virus."
Lin Hong was stunned for a moment and hurried to the computer to wake up his left hand.
[STONE: Don't read the attachment for the email titled April Fool's Day Gift, it's a virus!]
But after waiting for a long time, he didn't see a response. The left hand is offline by this time.
Lin Hong was a little speechless. It won't be so exaggerated. Could it be that he was the only one in the SAM seven-person group who didn't get the move?
Then, the phone in Lin Hong's room rang. Fortunately, he had already adjusted the volume of the phone to the minimum, and it would not disturb Vina and Orlando.
"***! I'm poisoned!" Matthew is very depressed at this moment.
"I know, Arthur was also poisoned. That email, right?"
“***!” Matthew scolded again. I should have thought that the titles of several emails are the same, which is obviously abnormal.
"Well, this virus. It seems to use the undefended psychology of acquaintances to deceive and spread.
Lin Hong suddenly remembered the "social engineering" that Kevin Mitnick and he talked about, which is also one of the cases, which is to use the weaknesses in people's hearts to spread.
Hanging up the phone, Lin Hong followed Arthur to his room.
At this moment, his computer can't start at all, and the system is completely destroyed.
After Arthur used the system to disk it, he tragically found it. His hard disk has been completely formatted!
"Damn it!" When Arthur saw this, his face suddenly changed. There were a lot of useful things in his hard disk. The code and tools he wrote before were all on it, but now they are completely destroyed!
Lin Hong asked for details about the virus in detail.
Arthur said that after he executed one of the files. A skull picture suddenly popped up on the monitor, and then a melodious music began to play in the speaker. At first, he thought it was a prank sent by Pison. After taking it, he found that the hard disk had been creaking, and suddenly something was wrong.
When the music is finished, his system will be completely black and can't be started at all.
At that time, he immediately ran to Lin Hong's and reminded him that it was a virus.
However, Arthur never expected that the virus would be so fierce that it would directly format the whole hard disk.
Most of the things in Arthur's hard disk were not backed up, so he had to start reinstalling the system and then recovering the data, but he was not sure to successfully recover all the data.
"I saw that they were all offline, and it seems that they were also poisoned. This virus is really troublesome. It has been specially written in two versions. Whether it is a DOS system or an Apple system, it can run. Lin Hong couldn't help sighing.
At this time, Arthur couldn't help but feel a little strange. He turned his head and asked, "Why aren't you poisoned?" Didn't you open the attachment?"
"I'm using the MINIX operating system sent by my friend last time. This virus can't run in this operating system."
It's really lucky to say that he escaped because he was too lazy to switch to the DOS system. Otherwise, he would have run the program long ago.
In this period, although the virus has also begun to appear gradually, it has still not aroused enough vigilance.
Moreover, many viruses are not very destructive. Many viruses are of prank types, which makes people feel indifferent to poisoning.
More importantly, those who are addicted to computers during this period are all lovers and enthusiasts of electronic technology. Everyone usually communicates through BBS or EMAIL, and the overall atmosphere is very friendly, and they have established a hidden sense of trust with each other. Even if you meet a stranger, you will subconsciously classify it as a kind person first.
Now, this habit is just used by this virus. It sends emails to the outside by obtaining the email address between acquaintances, and then combines it with the special time of April Fool's Day to spread rapidly.
That's why, among the seven members of the SAM Association, only the reason why Lin Hong survived. If it hadn't happened that he was using the MINIX system, he would have been hit. ( To be continued)