Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 443 Computer Virus Debuts

After Tang Huan came back, he found a young man who looked like a high school student being supervised and sitting in a corner, while the crowd of spectators were talking happily.

"What's going on?" Tang Huan kept calm when he saw that the scene was well maintained, busy but not chaotic.

"This little guy secretly used the program on his own floppy disk to destroy our demonstration system." The subordinate replied depressedly.

"I didn't find the wrong person." Tang Huan glanced at the young man who was still looking around, and continued to ask.

"No mistake, we caught a current one, and when we checked his floppy disk, we accidentally paralyzed a demonstration system." The subordinate replied, gnashing his teeth and staring at the boy.

Tang Huan nodded slightly. Although he was surprised, he agreed with his subordinates' judgment in his heart.

You should know that in the current personal computer industry, the types of floppy disk drives are not unified, and the formats of floppy disks are also different, thus forming a platform dependence.

For example, even if the floppy disk of Fangyuan PC can be put into the floppy disk drive of IBM-PC, it cannot be read or written.

Therefore, this alone can strongly prove that the young man is the initiator.

"Why are you angry? I was just studying your computer and made a joke." The young man laughed confidently.

Seeing that the kid showed no remorse, the subordinates clenched their fists angrily, while Tang Huan waved his hands. In such a public place, caring for feathers is the first priority, and there is no need to be violent.

Charles Simeone, who had already seen the situation, came over and said in a low voice: "This program has obvious self-replication, it infects all executable files, rewrites and adds unique microcode, which conforms to the requirements in the laboratory. Our definition of a computer virus."

Tang Huan nodded calmly, "How long will it take for these paralyzed demonstration systems to resume normal work?"

"The most direct way is to redo the contents of the hard disk, install the operating system, drivers, application software, and configure the network. It will take at least an hour or two."

Seeing Tang Huan frowned, Charles Simeone quickly explained: "This is the first time we have encountered such a situation, and the engineers who came with us are not particularly proficient in the underlying technical details of the computer system, so we can only use the most stupid The most time consuming method."

Tang Huan snorted dissatisfiedly, "The time is too long, and it will damage our image as a big company. These spectators don't understand, and they don't care what a computer virus is. They only know that we were played to death by a kid, maybe It will hit the headlines tomorrow and become a laughing stock."

Charles Simeone looked around and found that among the crowd, there were many competitors such as IBM, and some reporters were happily taking pictures with their cameras on their shoulders. Think of ways to."

After looking away from the Fangyuan computer screen full of garbled characters, Tang Huan ordered lightly, "Bring me my laptop."

Since the Fangyuan laptop was developed, this product has become Tang Huan's standard configuration for office work.

After spending 10 minutes writing and debugging a piece of assembly code, Tang Huan copied the program into a FreeDOS floppy disk and used it to restart a paralyzed demo computer.

Some viewers have noticed that Tang Huan, the big boss, has done it himself. He spreads it to ten, and then spreads it to a hundred. After whispering, everyone's eyes are focused on him.

The screen scrolled continuously for more than ten seconds with esoteric character lines, then restarted automatically, and then there was no more, and the system returned to normal.

"Copy this floppy disk, and then scan it for all the demo computers that have problems." Tang Huan casually handed the FreeDOS floppy disk to Charles Simeone, who had been standing by his side watching.

"Understood." Charles Simonyi agreed with admiration on his face. He didn't expect that after Tang Huan became a billionaire, he would be so powerful in the specific underlying technology. He didn't have such quick wit. See The doctor who is studying here has no water at all.

The spectators burst into warm applause and cheers. Naturally, their initial thoughts were that the bigger the chaos, the better, so that there is a good show to watch.

Especially those competitors, gloating over other people's misfortunes, secretly thinking about how to make jokes so as to embarrass the leader of the industry.

Unexpectedly, not only did Tang Huan's subordinates deal with the crisis in an orderly manner, but he also went into battle in person to solve the accident with three-pointers, five-pointers, and two-pointers.

Two reporters squeezed over desperately and asked impatiently, "Don, are you a hacker too?"

"That depends on whether the hacker you are talking about is commendatory or derogatory." Tang Huan smiled slightly and made a gesture to signal his subordinates to put away his laptop.

"You must be a good hacker, and that troublemaker boy is a bad hacker." The reporters tried every means to make news that caught people's attention.

"I can tell that this is just a naughty child's trick, it has nothing to do with good or bad." Tang Huan waved his hand.

"Then what are you going to do with this young hacker? Will you sue him?" The reporter asked persistently.

"Let's wait until we see his guardian." Tang Huan signaled to his subordinates and quickly let others deal with these chattering reporters.

After getting rid of the noise, Tang Huan came to the backstage and sat down. The young man was also brought over. At this time, he still looked shocked.

"Little guy, what's your name? Where did you come to Las Vegas? Where are your parents?" Tang Huan began to question after taking a sip of water.

"My name is Rich Skrenta——Rich Skrenta. I came here from Pittsburgh." Facing Tang Huan's sharp gaze, Rich Skrenta's eyes looked away guiltily. It's gone.

Hearing that the other party ran from Pennsylvania in the northeast to Nevada in the west, almost spanning the entire United States, Tang Huan couldn't help but gasped, and murmured to himself, "Fuck, American teenagers are too lawless."

"Do you understand that your behavior just now has damaged the commercial interests of our company, I can find a lawyer to sue you, even if you are underage, you cannot escape punishment." Tang Huan, who was not in a good mood, reprimanded him severely, " Believe it or not, I applied to the court to sentence you not to use computers in the future."

Maybe the last sentence was too intimidating. Richie Skrenta lowered his head and muttered in a low voice, "I just think your computer is advanced enough, so I want to research and experiment on it."

"Then why can't you just stay at home and study? Why did you go to the COMDEX site in Las Vegas to smash my business?" Tang Huan put down the cup heavily.

Rich Skrenta shrank his neck and argued plausibly, "The computers here are more advanced and have more types. In order to come to Las Vegas, all my pocket money has been used."

"This is really meeting a brat." Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows and decided not to waste time on this kid.

Not to mention that the US laws on computer security are not perfect at this stage, the media hype of "big bullying the small" that may be caused by the accountability alone is unbearable, and it seems that it can only be left alone.

(End of this chapter)