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Chapter 127 Killing someone with a borrowed knife

Zhou Hongyi is considered a top figure in the Internet industry.

Even the current Lei Jun is no match for him.

Although he is not tall, he has a hot temper and has criticized almost all Internet bigwigs. People in the circle call him "Red Cannon".

But people who don't like him say he is a gangster.

In fact, his temper and working style are indeed very rogue.

In order to compete for users, many softwares currently use plug-ins to induce installation.

If users want to uninstall, it is very troublesome and requires many steps.

The founder of this "rogue" method that makes users miserable is Zhou Hongyi.

When he started his business, he implanted 3721 Chinese Internet access into the IE browser as a plug-in. It once occupied the top spot in the Chinese Internet access field, even earlier than Baidu.

Relying on this strategy, 3721 achieved great success and announced profitability in 2001, during the cold winter of the Internet industry, with annual sales reaching 2 million.

However, it wasn't long before competitors emerged.

Browser plug-ins do not pose any technical difficulties for large companies, so many of them have developed their own browser plug-ins.

For example, Baidu, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Taobao, China Sohu, etc.

Some novice users have these plug-ins forcefully installed on their browsers, and they don’t know how to hide or uninstall them, resulting in half of the browser interface being occupied by the plug-ins.

The biggest threat to 3721 is Baidu.

In June 2002, Baidu launched an address bar plug-in to compete with 6 for the IE entrance.

In order to attract users, Baidu asked users to choose Baidu and delete 3721.

Zhou Hongyi immediately responded with the same tactic, and he also used technology to increase the difficulty for users to uninstall 3721.

To uninstall 3721, users have to connect to a website and go through several steps to uninstall it.

In addition, he also established the 3721 website navigation to open up the market.

He sought cooperation with several personal websites and asked them to find ways to make pop-up ads and forcibly change the user's browser homepage to the 3721 URL navigation. Some windows could not even be closed and the browser homepage could not be modified. Therefore, users angrily denounced it as rogue software.

As the initiator of all this, Zhou Hongyi was also dubbed the "Father of Rogue Software".

Later, Baidu won the search engine competition and 3721's business gradually declined.

By the end of 03, Zhou Hongyi sold 1.2 to Yahoo for US$3721 million.

However, Zhou Hongyi was not convinced and continued to work at Yahoo for more than two years, trying to turn Yahoo into a search engine like Baidu, but later failed.

He started to make a name for himself with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, and invested in products such as Xunlei and Kugou, which were all very successful.

He also tried to do projects, but failed repeatedly.

Finally, he decided to use his own shield to overcome his own spear and developed a rogue-killing software - 360 Guard.

Being the "father of rogue software", he developed a rogue-killing software. This news shocked the Internet entrepreneurship circle.

However, it turns out that only the "father of rogue software" knows "rogue software" best.

Zhou Hongyi started with his own son 3721, which won the market's favor, established his reputation, and increased the installed base sharply.

Later, 360 Antivirus used a free strategy to seize a large market share, but it was also criticized by the industry and even led to a large number of lawsuits.

During those years, Zhou Hongyi was at full power, fearless, and fought many battles, earning himself the reputation of the Red Cannon.

But when Lu Feng met him later, he had become much more restrained.

However, the Zhou Hongyi on the phone was not the Boss Zhou who later claimed to have cultivated his mind and character.

He was still the red-coated cannon with full firepower. Especially when facing a stranger who suddenly appeared and sent him an inexplicable email, he was particularly angry.

However, Lu Feng did not care, and just explained with a smile: "Boss Zhou, don't be angry, I got your contact information from Liu Jingkang from Jinda Software College.

I'm sorry to bother you so much, but I just want to tell you good news, so I took the liberty to contact you."

Zhou Hongyi was still furious: "Liu Jingkang called me randomly before and it was reported in the news. Where are you from now? Will you stop? Do you know that this is an invasion of privacy? I can sue you, I tell you!"

Seeing that he was firing on all cylinders right from the start, Lu Feng smiled and comforted him: "Boss Zhou, can I ask you a question first? Have you read the email I sent you?"

"I saw it. What's wrong? It's a mess. Why did you send it to me?"

"Did you see clearly? The people in there are organizers of the anti-Red Cult movement."

After hearing Lu Feng's reminder, Zhou Hongyi paused, and a few mouse clicking sounds came from the other end of the phone.

After a moment, Zhou Hongyi's voice came again: "How did you know that?"

"Don't worry about where I got this information from. I want to ask you first, what do you think of this anti-Red Cult movement?"

"I don't even look at it!"

Zhou Hongyi was furious again after less than three sentences: "These people are just a bunch of idle hooligans, posting slanderous messages everywhere, scolding whoever they catch. Why should I pay attention to them?"

Lu Feng could understand his anger.

During the previous 3Q war, this anti-Red Cult played a significant role in fanning the flames and adding fuel to the flames.

Moreover, their main action was to post messages to scold Zhou Hongyi and expose Zhou Hongyi's black material, just like flies, making Zhou Hongyi very upset.

But it was quite interesting to hear Zhou Hongyi, a big gangster, calling these people gangsters.

Lu Feng smiled and nodded in agreement: "Yes, I think so too."

After hearing Lu Feng's answer, Zhou Hongyi finally calmed down a bit: "What do you want to do?"

"Nothing, just telling you a good news."

Lu Feng casually explained: "These people have provoked me, I plan to use their dirty laundry to mess with them, report them to the police, and send them to jail for two years.

I know they have done bad things and disgusted you, so I want to tell you so that you can be happy too. "

After hearing this, Zhou Hongyi calmed down completely.

Anyone who can become a leader in the industry is naturally not stupid.

As soon as he heard it, he knew there was something fishy in Lu Feng's words.

"It's not that simple, is it?"

Zhou Hongyi asked: "Why don't you just call the police? Why bother contacting me?"

"I'm out of town, so I can't go to the capital?"

Lu Feng suggested with a smile: "How about, Boss Zhou, can you help me call the police?"

"..."

After hearing Lu Feng's proposal, Zhou Hongyi was silent for a moment, then sneered and said, "You're using a knife to kill someone on my head?"

How could he not understand Lu Feng’s purpose?

Asking him to call the police is actually using him to clean up the people in the email.

"Eh? How can it be a borrowed knife to kill someone?"

After being pointed out by Zhou Hongyi, Lu Feng was not panicked, and still said with a smile: "This is a chance for you to take revenge with your own hands. If you don't want it, then just ignore what I said and I will solve it myself!"

(End of this chapter)