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Chapter 353 Zhou Hongyi is a little confused
"Tying up Godfather Zhou Hongyi?" Luo Shengyi's eyes were filled with disbelief. He murmured, "We have no grudge against Zhou Hongyi, so why would he target us?"

Last month, Zhou Hongyi received tens of millions of US dollars in investment from Japan's JAFCO. He has a wealth of skilled people under his command and has almost won over half of China's hackers.

Qi Yonghuai was very familiar with Zhou Hongyi. Their Red Hacker Alliance and Zhou Hongyi's Hacker Alliance were mortal enemies, having competed against each other no less than a hundred times. He knew Zhou Hongyi's methods and habits inside and out.

No matter how you look at it, the style of this Trojan horse is definitely Zhou Hongyi's work.

The Trojan horse, from its core to its outer core, is permeated with the word "kindness," just like Zhou Hongyi's 3721.

In terms of functionality, it's really great; once installed, there won't be any more pop-ups. However, it will also cost you a little something.

Just like this Trojan horse, it only steals Legend of Mir accounts, but it won't touch other applications. On the contrary, when there are no Legend of Mir accounts to steal, it will also take on the important task of optimizing the computer.

As long as this Trojan horse is present, the computer will not get infected; it's incredibly safe.

Pop-ups, Trojans, and viruses—they all have to step aside.

This is practically like having a watchdog chained to your computer.

Qi Yonghuai, who was very familiar with Zhou Hongyi's methods, quickly found a way to uninstall the Trojan.

He restarted his computer three times in a row and finally managed to completely remove the stubborn Trojan.

He said, "I will record the tutorial later. You can ask the equipment guarantors in other districts and counties to find some computer shop owners nearby and use my method to remove this Trojan."

"Good." Luo Shengyi said happily, "So it's resolved?"

“Removing the Trojan only solves the surface problem,” Qi Yonghuai said. “We need to find out why the Trojan got infected in the first place.”

"Yes, yes, yes." Luo Shengyi nodded quickly.

This Trojan horse has infected districts and counties across the country; this method is truly terrifying.

Qi Yonghuai turned to look at the equipment guarantor and asked, "What have you downloaded recently?"

The equipment guarantor said in a trembling voice, "I haven't downloaded anything. I just look at the news on a few portal websites and our Shengda website. The only programs I log into on my computer are QQ and Legend. I haven't even opened any other games."

"You haven't logged into those shady websites?" Qi Yonghuai asked.

The equipment guarantor assured, "Absolutely not. I received special training during my tenure, and I would never knowingly commit such a violation."

Qi Yonghuai opened the history, and just as the equipment guarantor had said, the history only contained a few portal websites and Shengda's website.

It's virtually impossible to plant malware on a portal website. These portals have very high defense levels; after all, that's their livelihood. It would be ridiculous if someone infected them with malware.

Qi Yonghuai briefly checked several portal websites and, after confirming there were no problems, he then opened Shengda's official website.

The Shengda official website is maintained by the operations and maintenance department, but security protection is handled by Qi Yonghuai's team.

Qi Yonghuai can guarantee that the defense level of their Shengda official website is definitely stronger than those portal websites, and it is absolutely impossible for anyone to install a Trojan horse.

Qi Yonghuai has absolute confidence.

Since it's not a portal website or Shengda's official website, where did these Trojans come from?
Qi Yonghuai then inspected the computer again.

The USB ports are all sealed, making it impossible to transmit viruses via USB flash drive.

Qi Yonghuai fell into a brief silence.

What method did the other party use?

That's so strange.

Qi Yonghuai was certain that the other party must have planted a Trojan horse on a certain website, and then caused all the equipment guarantee computers across the country to click on the website and become infected with the Trojan horse.

How the other party managed to do it is a mystery. It is absolutely impossible for portal websites and Shengda's official website to be infected with Trojans, otherwise their tens of millions of yuan in network security fees every year would be wasted.
Qi Yonghuai considered for a moment and then asked, "Besides this, has anyone else touched this computer?"

The equipment guarantor thought for a moment and said, "One person moved it."

"Who is it?" Qi Yonghuai immediately looked at the equipment guarantor.

The equipment guarantor said, "He's mute and can't say his account password, so I let him enter it himself."

"He only entered his account and password?" Qi Yonghuai pressed.

The equipment guarantor said, "He typed that he couldn't remember his password, and then copied it from our Legend forum."

"Legendary Forum?" Qi Yonghuai's heart skipped a beat.

Legend Forum is a second-level page of Shengda's official website. Because it is a mixed-use forum that is somewhat entertainment-oriented, they have not invested much in security measures.

Could the problem lie with this legendary forum?
Qi Yonghuai quickly found the historical address of the Legend Forum in the history and logged in immediately.

This is a post made by a junior moderator of the computer forum on January 21, 2002.

The post was about the performance of DVD drives, and the replies were all over the place, mostly arguing about which drive would provide a clearer picture of Japanese adult films.

Because the replies are varied and contain all sorts of domestic and international terminology, many clever people simply copy a passage from these terms and call it a password.

It is both complex and easy to remember.

When you log into the game, open this post and copy and paste it.

Qi Yonghuai patiently read through all the replies to these posts, but he didn't find any external links in the posts.

There are no malicious links in the entire post.

Qi Yonghuai was starting to doubt himself. This shouldn't be happening. If this line of thinking was wrong, then was the other party a god? Could they remotely inject a Trojan into a specific computer?

Seeing Qi Yonghuai's furrowed brows, Luo Shengyi tentatively asked, "Director Qi, how about I ask the other equipment guarantors to see if they have any similar experiences?"

“Yes, that’s a breakthrough.” Qi Yonghuai’s eyes lit up and he asked, “Just ask them if their customers logged into the Legend Forum today.”

"Okay." Luo Shengyi immediately made a few phone calls.

He made more than a dozen phone calls in a row, and his expression became strange.

"What's wrong? Aren't there any similarities?" Qi Yonghuai's heart skipped a beat.

Luo Shengyi said in a trembling voice, "No, no, it's just that the similarities are too similar."

Luo Shengyi said, "These dozen or so equipment guarantors all said that someone opened the website of the Legend Forum."

"Then my thinking was correct!" Qi Yonghuai slammed his fist on the table excitedly.

He quickly calmed down and muttered, "But where exactly is this external link? Looking at the browsing history, the other party only stayed in this post for a short time."

Qi Yonghuai went through all the replies to the post again.

There are over two hundred replies, most of which are arguments between two trolls. One troll criticizes this, and the other criticizes that.

The two trolls went on and on, spewing out over ten pages of arguments.

After reviewing the posts, Qi Yonghuai said with great dissatisfaction, "First, ban the accounts of these two bastards. They can't just spam like this. What kind of nonsense are they arguing about? Are they just bored?"

Luo Shengyi chuckled dryly, "My dear Director Qi, let's not dwell on these things. Many players are waiting for the announcement."

Qi Yonghuai quickly said, "I'm so sorry."

Qi Yonghuai stared intently at the computer screen, then reviewed each user's profile page to ensure there were no URLs left. He frowned and said, "Since there are no external links in the replies or profile information, that means..."

Qi Yonghuai looked at the post by the junior moderator and cursed, "The problem lies with this junior moderator's post."

"That can't be, right?" Luo Shengyi said, somewhat incredulously, "Aren't all these junior moderators your people?"

“Yes, that’s why I wasted so much time.” Qi Yonghuai carefully examined the post of this junior moderator, saying as he did so, “I even doubted my own abilities, but I didn’t doubt the problems with his post.”

This junior moderator's post is very long, rambling on about a lot of basic knowledge about DVD drives.

The post contains three audio clips, which are comparisons of three different types of noise.

Qi Yonghuai examined the three audio clips and said, "There's a problem with the second audio clip."

"How did you figure that out?" Luo Shengyi looked at it carefully for a long time, but couldn't find anything wrong with it.

Qi Yonghuai clicked on the second audio clip, then quickly opened the Registry Editor.

Sure enough, the Trojan horse reappeared.

Luo Shengyi exclaimed in surprise, "There's a mole in our forum?"

"The mole is alright," Qi Yonghuai muttered. "We've probably been hacked."

These few words sent chills down Luo Shengyi's spine. He exclaimed, "Invaded? How is that possible?"

Qi Yonghuai said, "Nothing is impossible; the world is full of wonders."

Luo Shengyi said, "So, does that mean our forum could be infected with a new Trojan horse at any time?"

Qi Yonghuai said, "That's right, the vulnerability in our Legend Forum is already very small, yet the other party was still able to successfully infiltrate it using such a small vulnerability..."

As if he had made up his mind, Qi Yonghuai took out his phone and dialed a number, cursing directly: "Zhou Hongyi, WCN..."

Luo Shengyi stood to the side, quietly watching Qi Yonghuai's eloquent speech, thinking to himself that these programmers were no pushovers either.

At this moment, in a luxurious office building in Changping District of Beijing, a young man wearing a red T-shirt is staring in disbelief as fragrant words come from the other end of his phone.

He's been wronged! He's been wronged even more than Dou E!

He waited until the greetings on the other end ended before saying, "Qi Yonghui, what's wrong with you? Don't force me to mess with you when I'm happiest."

He had just received an investment of nearly 100 million yuan and was riding high. Before his happiness could even reach its peak, he was cursed by that bastard Qi Yonghuai.

In the internet industry, he's always the one who insults others; he's never been insulted by anyone else.
"Zhou Hongyi, I'm asking you, what exactly do you mean? Are you seeing the rapid growth of Shengda Group's game industry and planning to collect protection money? Or are you unhappy that I joined Shengda?" Qi Yonghuai questioned.

Zhou Hongyi was completely confused. He muttered, "Could you please explain the whole story first? You're making me very confused."

Qi Yonghuai said, "Did you send someone to hack into Shengda's official website?"

"What would I do if I had nothing better to do? Why would I hack into your systems?" Zhou Hongyi immediately became angry.

This is such a blatant attempt to frame someone! They start by launching into a tirade of insults and then begin to fabricate charges and frame others.

Qi Yonghuai said in a deep voice, "This attitude of daring to do something but not daring to admit it is not like your style. It seems that you are also afraid that Shengda Group will come after you."

"I'll give you a piece of my mind!" Zhou Hongyi couldn't hold back any longer and cursed, "Fine, since you think I've hacked into your territory, then I'll hack into one and show you. Gather your bunch of little brats and get ready!"

Zhou Hongyi hung up the phone after she finished cursing.

He slammed his phone on the table, and still feeling unsatisfied, he swept the fruit plate in front of him away.

He finally put on a suit and tie, ready to join the internet celebrity club and become a well-known entrepreneur, but these bastards just wouldn't let him have a moment's peace. Even though he didn't actively cause trouble, trouble still came knocking on his door.

It seems he needs to give these kids a warning, lest they forget who the real boss of the Chinese hacker community is.

He wanted to show these bastards that he could be a gentleman in a suit and tie, but could still be a thug when he took off his suit and tie.

Zhou Hongyi picked up her phone, made several calls in a row, and issued an order.

Attack Shengda's official website with full force!

He had just given the order when he suddenly felt it was inappropriate; it was a bit too blatant.

He immediately added another phone call, saying, "Sneak in quietly, hang up our manifesto, and then log out. Don't touch their programs or databases."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Hongyi's gaze fell on the fruit plate on the ground. Looking at the cherries scattered on the ground, he suddenly felt that it was a bit of a waste.

He stood up and picked up the cherries from the ground.

He wiped it with his sleeve and put it in his mouth.

Super sweet!

Soon, Qi Yonghuai called again. He said in a deep voice, "Don't hang up on me. I'll send the plugin to your email right now. Take a look for yourself!"

“Fine, send it to me,” Zhou Hongyi said. “If it wasn’t written by me, see how I deal with you.”

Zhou Hongyi got up and picked a few more cherries before strolling to his computer. Soon after, he received an email in his inbox.

The email attachment contained a malicious plugin that emulated an MP3 player.

Zhou Hongyi opened the malicious plugin, and after watching it for a while, he even forgot to eat the cherries.

This programming habit...

This line of thought...

In particular, the 'kindness' concept embodied in this malicious plugin is so profound that even he himself wouldn't believe it if he said he didn't write it. He is the only one in the country with a plugin filled with the concepts of 'kindness' and 'universal love'.

Once this malicious plugin is installed, the computer will never get infected again.

As Zhou Hongyi read and pondered, she gradually fell into a vortex of self-doubt.

Could it be that he wrote this while sleepwalking?

(End of this chapter)