Chapter 86: Going the way of others
As computers become more and more popular, Americans who own computers are no longer limited to people above the middle class. Even many people with low incomes can afford computers.
However, these people are different from those of the middle class who are very abide by intellectual property rights. They hate them very much and do not abide by intellectual property rights at all.
Don’t want to buy any paid software, and they have become a high-profile group of people who spread pirated and free software.
However, there is no reason why the virus will not infect you because you are poor.
Although they are careful to use computers, they have no professionalism and do not know which hypocritical website they have visited is full of viruses.
Only when the computer becomes stuttered will they remember whether their computer is infected with a virus. Only when the computers around them are hung up due to the virus will they remember the antivirus software.
However, although they remembered antivirus software, they would not buy antivirus software that would cost money as soon as possible.
What a joke, the price of a hand computer is only about one thousand dollars, and a second-hand computer can be bought for even five hundred dollars, four hundred dollars, and three hundred dollars.
It is of course not realistic to ask them to spend a hundred dollars, which is one-third of a computer, to buy antivirus software!
Therefore, even if they want to install antivirus software, they will add the "free" prefix to the search terms.
When they really searched for this entry in the search engine, they really found a website for a free antivirus software, and they clicked in to download it.
Although the download speed is very slow, although it has been a little bit more than a day. But when they think about the days when they can be protected by antivirus software, they smiled like children.
"Well... the interface of this antivirus software seems to be a little simpler... Why do you require so many free things? Just use it?"
"Uh...why...why is this software like this? All antivirus software is like this?"
Free antivirus software that often fakes death, crashes, and has expired virus databases is absolutely not easy to use, and can even be said to be very difficult to use.
However, there are many free users who use this free antivirus software.
"Tom, Tom, come and see! A new free antivirus software is available online, and anyone can download it!" A security officer who is about the same age as Tom Clacy shouted.
"Oh? Let's test it on the virtual machine," Tom said.
"good."
The virtual machine technology was actually not used very frequently a few years ago, but in the past two months, its popularity suddenly increased.
Because antivirus software companies must formulate corresponding response strategies in virtual machines.
Once you encounter any novel virus, you must put it in the virtual machine and run it so that you can analyze what functions it has and the corresponding solutions.
Of course, the optimization of the antivirus software itself must also be placed in a virtual machine.
You should know that although the working principle of antivirus software is simple, it is to violently pass everything in the computer like a sieve.
However, how to make this process efficient and take up low hardware resources is a very knowledgeable thing.
This set of core technology, when it comes to antivirus software, becomes the seemingly advanced term "antivirus engine".
It is precisely because the algorithms used by each antivirus software company are different that although each antivirus software has different capabilities in detecting and killing viruses, the user experience varies greatly.
For example, Kaspersky, the antivirus software that is best at is four words, "Kaba, crash". It's not that this software has a very big problem.
However, the hardware configuration of most computers does not support the operation of this software.
Therefore, a problem arises, and this software will often crash.
"Who made this antivirus software?" Tom said, looking at the antivirus software running in the virtual.
You should know that, except for those old antivirus companies, Tom's company may not be the first to be established, but it is the fastest-tracking one.
All employees in the company are a group of young men.
These young men are very energetic, working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day, and even not getting off work seven days a week.
The electricity bill for a month is even $10,000.
They worked so hard that Tom forced them, they were all voluntarily.
After all, the overtime salary is very sufficient. If you work twelve hours a day, the salary you earn is about three times that of working eight hours a day.
Having been in this one month is equivalent to having three months of class at Kaspersky and other companies.
It's the real January and March.
Other free security software companies do not have a $10 million investment, so they naturally cannot compete with Tom Clacy's company.
"Analysis! The analysis is out!" the assistant shouted and trotted over, "This software was made by Symantec. After we unsheathed, we found the habitual signature on the code notes."
The so-called habitual signature does not really write your name on it. It is a habit that some companies and individuals have. These companies and individuals think that their programs are well written and it is too ostentatious to leave names directly, so they choose the habitual signature model.
People who know how to do things naturally understand, but they will not understand people. Some beginners even see these methods of identifying masters from secret books with a pilgrimage mentality. They really find this code and will worship them devoutly.
This feeling of radiance and radiance in the face of a slutty programmer likes the most.
However, this kind of little habit sometimes leaves traces when all the initiators have forgotten it. Therefore, Tom and his colleagues found the production company of the software within an hour of researching it.
"What are Symantec doing? No more paid antivirus software, and we can compete with us for free antivirus software?" asked the supervisor next to Tom.
The clever Tom did not follow this idea, but asked, "Is this software stuck, slow, and not easy to use?"
"Yes! Why is Symantec's skills so bad?" The supervisor still didn't understand.
"You..." Tom looked at the supervisor who had not yet reacted with surprise, and vaguely felt that he had chosen the wrong supervisor.
"Symantec is trying to make free antivirus software!" Tom Clacy sighed.
Chapter completed!