How ferocious was the
computer virus “Panda Burning Incense”? It is
so ferocious that it has become the collective memory of a generation of netizens. It is also unprecedented on the Chinese Internet. Li Jun, the author of the
virus, left a wild story for the Internet in that period. Xiantao City,
Hubei Province, an ordinary county-level city on the Jianghan Plain, is the hometown of Lei Jun, the president of Xiaomi. Just after New Year’s Day in
2007, it rained for several days, and the air was particularly wet and cold.
At this moment, the police on duty in the household registration section of the Xiantaolong Mount Hua police station did not feel a little cold. To be exact, he was so hot that he felt dizzy, and the sweat beads on his forehead were wiped with him.
What makes him feel so hot is the work in front of him: the computer is down and he can’t work normally.
People kept coming to ask about the second-generation ID card, and he could only repeat over and over again, “The computer is broken, and we have to wait.”.
Someone stretched out his head curiously, and sure enough, it was broken. The screen was full of pandas, holding three sticks of incense.
“I’m afraid the computers at the police station have bugs!” A middle-aged man exclaimed at the others.
He remembered that his son often watched a cartoon called “Millennium Bug”, in which the Millennium Bug was the culprit of computer paralysis.
An older man did not agree, saying that it was long before the beginning of winter, and there were no insects! The young policeman on duty had no intention of listening to these chats. He kept making phone calls, looking for colleagues who knew technology, looking for supervisors and superiors. People from all walks of life took turns to fight, using various anti-virus software, and trying to reinstall the system, but the panda was stubbornly occupying the screen.
This afternoon, Longhua Mountain Police Station failed to give anyone a second-generation ID card.
What’s more, the terrible giant panda soon spread throughout the Institute, interrupting the normal network office, but they had to ask for help from the network supervision department.
At the same time, experts from the 11th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security and the National Computer Emergency Response Center in Beijing are also worried.
Days of bad news have come from all parts of the country: “a new type of virus is spreading in Hubei Province, and the internal networks of public security organs in many places have been hacked.” Today, the internal networks of many enterprises in Beijing were paralyzed, causing heavy losses. “The local area network of a university in Shandong collapsed, affecting normal teaching and student examinations.” The virus has appeared in Liaoning, Shanxi, Guangdong, and Shanghai. The source of the virus is suspected to be in Wuhan. “The virus has infected millions of computers, and the anti-virus software on the market is useless to it. The major anti-virus software companies say they are unable to check and kill the virus in a short time.” It is not just the authorities who are powerless in the face of this virus called “Panda Burning Incense.”.
In the folk, its blow has even formed a kind of lasting traumatic memory.
Many of those who witnessed it still remember the days when they were dominated by pandas burning incense: When I was in college, one day I suddenly noticed that all the icons on my computer had turned into a panda holding three sticks of incense.
I didn’t take it seriously at all. I thought I could just use Kaspersky! The voice of Kaspersky antivirus is like killing a pig. After crying for a long time, I found that the virus was still there, but Kaspersky went first.
That was the first time I saw such an awesome virus.
At that time, my job was to sort out the information and send it to my superiors, which usually took 10 minutes.
Since I was infected with Panda Burning Incense, the first thing I did at work every day was to reinstall the system. After installing the system, I quickly sorted out the data and sent it out within five minutes.
If it takes more than 5 minutes, the panda head will be displayed.
In all kinds of recollections, in addition to saying that the panda burning incense was terrible, more people used the term “technical spoof” to describe the virus.
As a worm virus, Panda Burning Incense can infect exe files. If you find a file ending in.exe, you can bind it to the virus and change its icon.
So the first obvious feature of many sick computers is that the software icon on the desktop turns into a cute panda.
Open antivirus software?
Useless! Often poison did not kill, kill soft oneself hang first.
Restore the system?
No way! The Gho file was deleted. Where can you restore it.
In addition, when you start the game program, it can also send your account number and password to the designated mailbox, that is, stealing the number. The computer desktop
infected with “Panda Burning Incense” is a virus that is difficult to kill and has a high disease rate, but it still has a terrible ability to spread geometrically.
2006 is in the wild era of Chinese Internet, Internet users generally, will reinstall a system, people also lack the most basic anti-virus knowledge: a U disk used by several people, this plug, that poke; some people just play chat software, friends send a link on the point, send a file on the answer; There are also people who have computer problems and will restart, you suggest that he install a Kaspersky, he replied to you, “What bus driver”. All kinds of chaos are the fertile soil for pandas to burn incense.
And its greatest characteristic is its “spoof” nature.
Works are often permeated with the author’s genes, and the spoof nature of panda burning incense is inherited from its author Li Jun. On the last day of January
2007, Hubei police set up a panda incense burning special investigation team with unprecedented line-ups. Huang Shuhai, the head of the network supervision team
in Hubei Province, personally took the lead. The elites of network supervision in Xiantao, Yichang, Jingmen and other places galloped to Wuhan, and experts from Beijing also traveled thousands of miles to help.
So far, China’s first major computer virus case has officially entered a critical stage.
When the news appeared in the media, no one would believe that the author behind the virus was a nobody.
People’s conjectures tend to be logical: the creator of the virus is either a deep-pocketed software company or a few talented hackers in the country, and only they deserve this level of labor.
A few days later, the police announced that the case had been solved, and announced the identity of the virus author: Born in, Hubei from Wuhan, technical school degree, once worked in a cement factory in Wuhan, worked as a webmaster, worked as a driver, and also worked as a handyman in the computer city, with a monthly income of less than 1,000 yuan. The
criminal profile has gone astray. Li Jun, 25, looks like a sweeping monk-hidden in the street, with a meager income, but with unparalleled martial arts skills. The original intention of
making Panda Incense was, in Li Jun’s own words, “entirely out of a hobby.” He didn’t do it for money or fame. He just wanted to make something to satisfy his vanity and simply show off his skills. So Panda Incense is naturally a spoof virus caused by a hobby.
But Li Jun is not a natural virus maker, his hobby is also accidental. Before the age of
16, Li Jun had no contact with the Internet. After graduating from
junior high school, he studied in a cement factory children’s school, and his parents had worked as ordinary workers in the cement factory. When he first
entered school, he majored in cement, one radish and one pit. The purpose of the school to set up this major is obvious, that is, to let students inherit the banner of their parents and do a good job in the cement industry.
Li Jun does not like what cement class, in the Internet bar contact with the moment of online games, Li Jun completely fell in love with the network, from then on skipping classes has become a common practice.
Playing games does not mean playing computers. At this time, Li Jun is still a computer rookie. Two things happened in the
same year that changed Li Jun’s life.
The first thing is around.
In 1999, the school adjusted its professional direction according to the needs of the factory, and Li Jun’s cement major became electromechanical integration.
From then on, Li Jun came into contact with computer courses and learned DOS and Windows operating systems. The
second thing happened far away in Eastern Europe. In May
1999, NATO forces bombed the Chinese Embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, killing three Chinese journalists and injuring dozens of others.
At first glance, the second thing seems to have no special relationship with Li Jun, but the aftermath of the disaster also spread to Li Jun here.
That afternoon, Li Jun went to the Internet bar as usual. In a secluded corner of the Internet bar, he saw a familiar figure with sharp eyes. Look at the side face
again. Yes, it’s Lei Lei from the same school.
In the world of Internet cafes, people who hide in corners have only one purpose. Many bad boys in the Chinghsiang area laughingly call it “watching Huangmei Opera.”.
Li Jun a knowing smile, this guy, usually look at him quite gentle! He and Lei Lei are not good friends, but often meet face to face.
But the normal curiosity of adolescent boys made Li Jun move behind Lei Lei.
When he pretended to look sideways, he was shocked by the picture on the computer.
It was not “Huangmei Opera,” but a string of codes that he had never seen before, but which strongly attracted him.
Lei Lei tapped on the keyboard at a high speed, his eyes only staring at the computer, and he did not notice that Li Jun was beside him. Unable to
restrain his curiosity, Li Jun could not help interrupting him, “Dude, what are you doing?”?
Lei Lei was startled, see is Li Jun, he said lightly, did not do anything, fight with people! Then he turned around and got ready to work.
Fighting?
Li Jun obviously doesn’t believe it. How do you fight with people on the Internet? What do these numbers and letters
you typed mean? Why can’t I understand them at all?
Seeing that Li Jun looked excited and reluctant to give up, Lei Lei stopped. Did you know that the
Americans bombed our embassy?
Yes, I saw it on TV. Do you know that
they didn’t apologize for killing the Chinese?
Yes, it’s so irritating. If
they don’t apologize, we’ll beat them up and apologize.
Let’s hack all the websites of the Americans and see how proud they are! “You are a hacker!” At this time, Li Jun could no longer hide his excitement, and his two eyes were shining.
It was the first time he had met a live hacker, or someone he knew.
Seeing that he was so excited, Lei Lei felt a little embarrassed. “I’m not a hacker. I just joined an organization. They gave me a task, and I did it.”. Isn’t that a
hacker?
Li Jun fell completely as if he had met his sweetheart.
Years later, Lei Lei told the media about this experience.
In his eyes, Li Jun in the Internet bar that day was an alternative. Many people stood behind the game players and stared at the screen for an afternoon. Only Li Jun was interested in the strange things on his screen.
Interest is not only the best teacher, but also the best “matchmaker.” Two people who are both interested in computers have been together ever since.
Their fates are also surprisingly similar. In 2007, Li Jun was arrested for burning incense with pandas, and Lei Lei was also on trial. This is the last word.
Lei Lei is not stingy and teaches Li Jun everything he can. They studied this cold knowledge for a long time
in schools and Internet cafes.
Li Jun’s obsession with technology has reached the extreme. Sometimes he doesn’t even eat or sleep, and reads computer books overnight. After graduating from
technical secondary school, Li Jun has been better than others. Li Jun, who
thought he had achieved success in his studies, felt that he could already rely on computer technology for a living.
In the face of cement, Li Jun has no interest at all. In spite of his family’s opposition,
he went to downtown Wuhan, where he planned to make a career. There is a routine of
inspirational films. People who work hard with dreams will always be beaten up by life.
Li Jun is no exception. With a
technical school education, he could not find a decent job in Wuhan at all.
If the jobs of network management and computer city installation are still “dream counterparts,” then his short career as a driver can only be explained by the pressure of life.
The work is not satisfactory, not to mention the salary, which is stable all the year round ranging from several hundred to one thousand.
Like all inspirational films, Li Jun has never given up his dream of becoming a hacker.
Long-term contact with computers, he still insists on self-learning technology, although the income has been standing still, but his programming level is constantly improving. In
reality, Li Jun is bumpy, but he is another person on the Internet.
In the face of strangers, he is not talkative and often has nothing to say.
But on the Internet, he can talk to 20 people at the same time.
The network brought him a great sense of achievement to make up for his shortage in reality.
Li Jun has great abilities hidden in his body. At the age when Qiu Ma is most likely to be frivolous, he finds the real enemy as he wishes. On April 1,
2001, a conversation like this appeared over the South China Sea: “Call 81192, this is 553. I have been ordered to take over your aircraft’s cruise mission. Please return!” “81192 received, I am unable to return, you continue to move, repeat, you continue to move!” 81192 the serial number of the Chinese pilot Wang Wei’s J-8.
On that day, he was ordered to fly a plane to intercept a US military plane that had intruded into China’s exclusive economic zone.Unfortunately, he collided with the US plane and fell into the vast sea.
This is a big event that touches hundreds of millions of Chinese hearts, and history is often big and small. When the
domestic media broadcast the news, they would not have thought that their words and pictures had ignited a series of terrible anger.
Li Jun is a source of fire in a small corner of history.
A month later, the fire passed through a network cable and burned across the Pacific Ocean. On
May Day, some Americans find strange images on their computers. When they open a government website, the page pops up with a red flag decorated with five stars and some Chinese characters they don’t know. If they looked
more carefully, they could see that every sentence in Chinese was accompanied by English.
“Long live the great Chinese nation,” “The United States must take full responsibility for the plane collision incident,” and “Protest against the United States selling weapons to Taiwan and undermining world peace.” It was only after seeing this that they realized that it was not their own computers that had gone wrong, but that the government’s official website had been captured by the Chinese on the other side of the ocean.
Li Jun used the keyboard to tap out his anger at the Americans, but he was not alone in the battle. The founder of
China Honker is the first initiator of this cyber war.
From the moment he saw China being humiliated on TV, he began to plan a hacking campaign against major American websites.
Within a month’s preparation time, lion successively joined forces with the China Hawk Alliance, the China Hacker Alliance, and other hacker organizations, and widely distributed heroic posts to gather all kinds of technical personnel to prepare for a “war” against the United States. The night before the
attack, lion was maneuvering in an encrypted chat room on his website.
“Attack in small groups by province and coordinate with each other.” This was the order issued by lion on the same day, and at least 80,000 people received this order. When
Li Junren was in Wuhan, he naturally joined the “China Hubei Group.”.
There were his good friend Lei Lei and many friends he had just met.
That day, Li Jun had a sleepless night. In the wee hours of the morning, he and his “comrades in arms” raised their flags and began to attack the US website.
Some people’s patriotic enthusiasm comes and goes quickly.
Within a few days, some people withdrew from the operation.
Li Jun is 19 years old and has more energy than he can use up. Together with tens of thousands of “comrades in arms
,” he poured into the White House website and paralyzed it for several hours.
The US side immediately issued a statement, saying that the White House website was “maliciously attacked by people.”.
Of course, it is malicious, and Li Jun does not care about the US attitude at all. On
8 May, Li Jun and his colleagues launched a new round of offensives, and the websites of the US Coast Guard, the US Treasury Department, and the US Navy Resources Network were occupied one after another.They posted a picture of Chinese pilot Wang Wei on the websites and left behind slogans such as “Long live the People’s Republic of China.”. Not content with this, Li Jun, who liked to be spoofed by the hacked web pages of the
US side, also learned from others and left the word “***” on some websites.
To deal with the Americans, we have to use their national curse.
Hacker wars are bound to come and go. When
Li Jun was happy with his enmity on the American website, a large number of websites in China were captured by the United States. At this time,
Li Jun had to obey the orders of the organization to help the domestic attacked websites to repair the loopholes. The result of the
war is naturally internecine. In the
online data, more than 1600 websites, including the White House, the Coast Guard and the Treasury Department, were captured, while Americans paralyzed more than 1100 websites in China.
Nevertheless, Li Jun was still “excited” at that time.
So when lion announced the end of hacking and stopped attacking American websites, he also felt a lot of disappointment.
No one expected that three months later, Li Jun would be able to taste the pleasure of revenge again.
This time, Li Jun’s opponent is the Japanese. On August 13,
2001, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the Yasukuni Shrine.
As a Chinese, it’s hard not to be offended by this kind of behavior. Li Jun, who
has not yet come over from the Sino-US hacker war, has once again embarked on the journey. The website
of Yasukuni Shrine is not complex, Li Jun did not expend what time to be black went in, after a period of operation, he retires with success.
On this day, when you open the website of the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan, you will find Li Jun’s work: a big five-star red flag hanging high on the website.
That day, in his cramped rented room, Li Jun repeatedly admired his masterpiece. He felt like Bruce Lee. He carried a “sick man of Asia” sign to a Japanese martial arts school and kicked it to pieces in front of them. “How dare you bully us Chinese!”. In addition to the Yasukuni Shrine website, a large number of government sites, such as the Japan Defense System Research Association, the Japan Intelligence Congress Service Center, and the website of Japanese parliamentarians, have also been attacked by the China Honker Alliance.
The hacker action lasted for a short time, but it was the most impressive one for Li Jun.
There is no doubt that Li Jun has tasted a long-lost sense of achievement in the Internet world, and he feels that he has become a hero.
In the eyes of 19-year-old Li Jun, this is a “major event to defend national honor.”. The passion of rising
blood comes and goes quickly. After
turning off the computer, Li Jun is still struggling in a corner of Wuhan. Since
2008, some QQ users in China have received a series of strange messages from friends: “Are you interested in seeing my photos?”?
Don’t worry, there won’t be a virus. What have you been up to lately? Introduce a good thing
to you, go to see it, and give some advice by the way. “Free movies, unlimited downloads, very good, look at it.” Under these messages, without exception, there is a link attached. After the
user clicks on the link, a photo of a beautiful woman will pop up instantly, with a line of words at the top of the photo: “Hello, everyone, I hope to be good friends with you, my QQ: XXX.”.
This virus is mainly spread through QQ. When the computer is infected by the virus, once the user runs QQ, the virus will constantly search for the currently opened QQ “Send Message” window, and automatically send a message to other users after finding the “Send Message” window.
This virus is the “Wuhan Boy” that caused a sensation, and its author is Li Jun. In July
2005, Jiangmin Science and Technology announced the ranking of the top ten viruses in the first half of the year, and “Wuhan Boys” ranked ninth.
In countless difficult days, the network is still Li Jun’s favorite chicken blood. Virus is an unavoidable topic in the
hacker communication circle.
People talk about viruses, study viruses, and praise hackers who make well-known viruses. Immersed in this subculture,
Li Jun also began to try to make viruses.
“Wuhan Boy” was his first “masterpiece.”.
Perhaps the hacker’s integrity is at work, perhaps Li Jun is worried about breaking the law, the virus that can steal the user’s game account does not affect much, and Li Jun did not use it to make profits.
For some time, he even published the software on the Internet for discussion. Like a chivalrous
hacker, he also went out of his way to help detect vulnerabilities in government websites and large corporate servers, and when he found them, he would inform webmasters by email.
These well-intentioned reminders “often sink into the sea,” but Li Jun believes that this is the spirit of a hacker. There is still no improvement in
Li Jun’s life. Around
2005, Li Jun, unwilling to be mediocre, decided to go out to make a living.
He went to Shenzhen and Beijing for a walk. He wanted to find a serious IT job, but because of his low education, no company responded to him.
This experience made Li Jun feel completely desperate: “Do I want to be a webmaster and handyman all my life?”? After
returning to Wuhan, Li Jun was depressed and degenerate, and his unsatisfactory real life made him infatuated with the virtual world.
On an ordinary night, Li Jun passed the time in the Internet bar as usual.
Day and night to soak in Internet cafes to fatigue, at the moment, he is sitting in a chair watching a movie. After the
QQ message prompted the sound several times, he picked up the God and clicked on it.
The message came from a friend in the technology circle who had never met before: “Yes, I have something to trouble you?”?
My computer seems to have fallen into the trap. I can’t handle it. I can’t find a few people to solve it. You
are so awesome that you should be able to see what kind of virus this is?
“The thing has been sent to you.”.
Like chicken blood, Li Jun almost bounced up from his chair.
From that day on, Li Jun pondered the virus sent by his friend day and night. Li Jun has gradually found out
its infection mechanism, operation principle and anti-virus scheme. The more he
learned, the more interested he became in the virus.
Later, he forgot his friend’s request and just thought about the virus.
One day, Li Jun suddenly thought, can I make a better one?
“Wuhan Boy” is only the ninth, and this time I want to be the first. The seeds of
panda burning incense begin to sprout here.
From that day on, until the virus came out, Li Jun was like a climber, overcoming one cliff after another and discovering one dangerous peak after another. During
this period, he did not forget to add some “Li Chun-style spoofs” to the virus.
Who says viruses have to be hidden?
I don’t want to. I want to make virus icons everywhere.
I want you to turn on the computer and you can hear my bad laugh: You have been hacked! After the virus is basically completed, Li Jun, a patient with difficulty in choosing, has encountered one of the biggest problems: what to use to make the icon of this virus?
Another netizen sent rain in time. When he chatted with someone
that day, the other person sent an expression-a naive panda holding three sticks of incense. This
is so much fun! Li Jun caught it at a glance. On October 16,
2006, Li Jun offered a panda to burn incense.
At first, he had a playful attitude. As soon as the
virus was completed, Li Jun publicized the virus everywhere in the circle.
Like a child who has just finished building blocks, he can’t wait to be recognized by others. Perhaps it was the cruel life that
changed Li Jun.
At this time, Li Jun was still working in the computer city, with a monthly salary of 1000 yuan, and could only live in a dilapidated residential building in Guanshan, Wuhan, with a rent of 200 yuan.
Several friends who knew the inside story advised him to sell the virus to others, and he was sure to make a lot of money.
Li Jun is a little hesitant.
Friends did not give up, they even put forward a specific plan to make money: you do not have to come forward, I can help you here, in a few days I will find a few people to help you sell, you have a big head of money, the rest of how we divide you do not care.
Slowly, Li Jun moved, with their own works to make some money, why not?
The spoof has finally turned sour. In November
2006, Panda Incense Burning was officially commercialized.
Through Lei Lei and others offline, Li Jun sold the virus at prices ranging from 500 to 1000 yuan. After the buyer got the virus, he could implant a Trojan horse to turn the poisoned computer into a “broiler” and generate benefits by stealing account information.
A complete industrial chain has been formed.
Before the arrest, Li Jun had sold more than 100 copies of the virus, and he alone made a profit of 140,000 yuan.
This is more than his total income since he joined the work force.
He did not use a virus to steal anyone’s game account, but the virus sold to him spread to millions of computers. Li Jun, who
tasted the sweetness, did not struggle any more, but had the taste of a winner in life.
He first bought himself a laptop computer, and then gradually lived a high-consumption life: eating the best food, staying in the best hotels, flying to meet with netizens, and sometimes spending tens of thousands of yuan a day.
He is also very grateful to Lei Lei. After the
virus spread, Li Jun’s website traffic increased sharply, and Lei Lei’s father opened a brick and tile factory, which needed publicity.
Li Jun happily wrote a small plug-in and put it on the website to advertise for brick and tile factories.
Those victims who were forced to visit Li Jun’s website because of computer poisoning found that there was an advertisement for a brick and tile factory on it. Not long after the
good days, Li Jun suddenly became nervous.
One day, he saw the news of panda burning incense virus posted on major portals. The excitement of
fame and fortune came to an abrupt end, and Li Jun was in a constant state of anxiety.
High-profile has become a loophole, fame and wealth has become evidence of guilt. Li Jun and Lei Lei, who were
worried about their IP being checked, hid in a rented house, where they began to hide the icon of panda burning incense and tried to make a special killing program for panda burning incense. After
realizing that his virus had caused huge losses to society, Li Jun also wrote a letter of apology and prepared to send it out Lunar New Year’s Eve night.
Unfortunately, Li Jun’s attempt to redeem himself was too late. On February 1,
2007, Li Jun got up early and bought a newspaper when he passed a newsstand. After
turning over two pages, Li Jun suddenly froze and was almost scared out of his wits. On January 31, the news that the Hubei Network Supervision Team had set up a special investigation team was in sight, and he was the number one target of the investigation team. Anyone would be frightened.
Li Jun decisively decided to flee the province.
An episode upset his plans.
After breakfast, Li Jun rushed back to the rental house to get something. He habitually glanced at his laptop, and a message came into view: Do you have a special killing software for panda burning incense? I want to buy one.
Li Jun didn’t even think about it and quickly agreed.
Panda burning incense has become a thorn in the side of the police. At this time, it is better to sell soft killing than virus.
Make up for the mistake! The other side also said that he was in Wuhan and hoped to meet.
Li Jun hesitated, except for a few people he trusted, he would not meet the seller in private.
Besides, now that the wind is so tight, it’s better not to show up.
No meeting, online trading.
The other party was not discouraged and insisted on meeting him. What you sell is anti-virus software, not a virus. What are you afraid of?
An ominous thought flashed by, but Li Jun didn’t take it seriously.
I’m about to leave, so it’s okay to meet at this time! He revealed his approximate location. In an office of
the provincial network supervision team, Huang Shuhai, the chief of the team, and his members of the task force cheered. The team member who
had just played the buyer quickly took down the address.
In order to be absolutely safe, the task force sent people to lay charges near Li Jun’s residence. Where does Li Jun, who walks with his head down
every day and dares not look at people, know that there are several pairs of eyes staring at him from time to time not far away. At 8 p.m.
on February 3, the police decided to close the net. Li Jun, who had just returned to his residence, was captured. The letter of apology that had not been sent was also seized by the police. Less than four months
after the production of the Panda Incense Burning Virus was completed, Li Jun’s “good life” came to an abrupt end.
Subsequently, the Xiantao City People’s Procuratorate prosecuted Li Jun and others for the crime of “sabotaging the computer information system.”. In September
2007, the Xiantao People’s Court sentenced Li Jun to four years in prison and confiscated all his illegal gains.
His good friend Lei Lei was also sentenced to one year in prison for the same crime. Li Jun in
court (photo from Changjiang Business Daily) As early as when he was detained in the detention center, Li Jun voluntarily handed over the virus killing procedure and issued the late apology letter.
Dear Netizens: Hello! I am the author of the first edition of Panda Burning Incense.
I really didn’t expect that Panda Burning Incense would be so crazy in just two months. It’s really my fault. Maybe I really underestimated the power of the Internet. I didn’t expect it to spread faster! At the end of the letter, Li Jun also left this admonition: “The panda has gone, is it the end?”?
No, the network will never be safe, perhaps in the near future, there will be a lot of more powerful viruses out! So I’m here to remind you that raising awareness of network security is not something you should pay attention to, but something you must know and do! Not to mention that skilled people are popular everywhere? After
being imprisoned, Li Jun became a hot potato in prison.
According to media reports, a prison guard once joked that Li Jun was a computer “doctor” in the prison. Whenever there was a problem with the computer, he would be fine as soon as he fiddled with it. “We wish he wouldn’t go out for 50 years.
Seeing this, isn’t it a bit like the Shawshank Redemption?
The prison guard was just joking. Of course, he could not imagine that Li Jun would really enter the palace six years later.
Li Jun felt that he was unlucky. There were thousands of people who made viruses. He was the first one to go to prison for this.
No wonder Li Jun has such an idea. Panda burning incense is the first major computer virus case cracked in China. Li Jun, the principal criminal, has become the first crab to be eaten. Naturally, there is an unfinished luck in his heart. In December
2009, Li Jun was released from prison early for good behavior.
Before he walked out of the bitter kiln, netizens who did not mind watching the fun had already planned an enviable and hateful path for him: either to the anti-virus department of the public security department, or to the anti-virus software company, or to the information security Institute of the university.
Years old, come out also but 27 years old, such age, such talent, become general manager, hold the post of CEO, marry Bai Fumei should be no problem.
This time, it’s the reality’s turn to spoof Li Jun. After he was
released from prison, Li did two things. One was to register Sina Weibo to talk directly with the public. The other was to go straight to Beijing to seek a future. In prison, some companies in Beijing had been courting him frequently, and joining the regular army was his long-cherished wish.
At this time, Li Jun is full of lofty sentiments.
But many companies, including Jinshan, just want to use Li Jun as a gimmick.
Jinshan Company arranged for people to take Li Jun to have a meal, turn around in the company corridor, and then take Li Jun as a mascot-take a photo with the company’s products P0SE. In
the end, Kingsoft symbolically issued Li Jun a letter of appointment as a “security observer.” Li Jun had no idea what it was for. Come
with pleasure and return with disappointment. Li Jun didn’t go to the
next company.
Because the reality is that no company wants him to be a cement major graduate of a technical school with a criminal record. At the beginning of
2010, Beijing suffered a rare low temperature in 50 years, and Li Jun’s trip to Beijing ended in cold silence. Outside
Beijing West Railway Station, Xu Yuyang, a classmate, followed him slowly and saw him off.
Li Jun still remembers that it snowed heavily on the day he came to Beijing, but he had a warm heart in his heart.
This day, the snow outside the railway station has not melted, Li Jun’s heart is cold to the bone. Li started making panda incense shortly after his unsuccessful job search
in 2008.
Some people suspect that Li Jun will return to his old job and continue to do viruses, after all, this is what he is best at.
But Li Jun responded firmly, “No, definitely not.”. The first Weibo
he sent out seemed to be firmly turning over a new leaf: “Panda Burning Incense.” Because of this incident, I have been imprisoned for nearly three years. In the past few years, I have learned a lot of things and understood a lot of truth. However, at this low point in my life, what should I do?
Come on, everything will be fine, there will be milk, there will be bread. Start
all over again, create this micro-blog, record a new Li Jun’s mental journey.. After that, Li Jun faded out of the public topic, and more often, he would play an ordinary bystander in the online world on Weibo. During the 3Q war in
2010, Li Jun bitterly criticized the two companies on Weibo that “they only want to use netizens as resources in their minds, and none of them want to work for netizens with peace of mind.”. In December
2012, Li Jun disappeared after sharing an English song on Sina Weibo.
Li Jun’s last comment on Weibo surfaced again in June of the following year, when officials in Lishui, Zhejiang, announced that Li Jun was “out of the mountains” in Lishui.
According to the data, Li Jun and others used illegal means such as network viruses to operate online casinos, making millions of yuan in profits.
And it seems so natural for him to go to crime again. After his release from
prison, there were countless difficult days, and Li Jun’s determination was tested again and again.
He was frustrated in finding a job, and because of his crime, his family also had opinions about him. The Internet
was once famous, but now it is so embarrassed.
Throughout 2010, Li Jun lived like a year.
Until one day in early 2011, Zhang Shun, an accomplice who made panda incense together, called him. When he was in prison for the
first time, Zhang Shun said to Li Jun that after he came out, our brothers would go straight and start a business together. On the other end of the
phone, Zhang Shun did plan a beautiful blueprint for Li Jun to start a business-to use our expertise to become a network company and develop various game software for profit.
I ask the boss to contribute money, you contribute, and buy shares with technology.
Still young, Li Jun is in need of a life-saving straw.
This straw is not reliable.
A few people without serious business sense were defeated in the fair and legal competition, and the software they developed was not popular.
Poverty leads to change, Zhang Shun once again threw a straw-do not do software, directly operate the chess and card game platform.
Li Jun agreed without hesitation. In April
2011, “Jinyuanbao Chess and Card” operated by Li Jun and Zhang Shun was launched. They opened gambling game programs such as “Niuniu” and “Stud” on the platform. Players can participate in online gambling through these programs.
In order to obtain greater benefits, Li Jun even made a virus to control the game for the platform, so that gamblers lost all their money.
Li Jun also quickly realized the freedom of wealth.
In 2012, China cracked down on online gambling.
Li Jun noticed the wind, and several people closed the gambling platform after some discussion.
But this time, like that year, it was too late. The police who had already grasped the evidence of his crime attacked in time, and Li Jun fell into the net again. In January
2014, the court concluded the case, Li Jun was imprisoned again for the crime of opening a casino, and was sentenced to three years in prison. “Good brother” Zhang Shun also went to prison.
Re-enter the prison, I don’t know if shun has made any new commitment to him. In mid-
2015, Li Jun was released from prison again. When he was released from prison for the
first time, he was still young at the age of 27. He wasted a few years to enter the palace for the second time. When he regained his freedom, he had already passed his thirties. Not surprisingly, Li Jun, 33, chose to disappear completely. Since then, there has been no recent situation of him on the Internet.
Li Jun has become a story, a legend, and the panda burning incense that once ravaged the Chinese Internet is now out of date, and any free guard or housekeeper can kill it.
Li Jun once said that not going to college was his lifelong regret.
From another point of view, Li Jun seems to be the biggest regret in the wild era of the Internet.
. Focus on not getting lost ~
