Giant panda is always
considered as an endangered specie, and
Chinese have done everything they can to help
boost the population.
Entering year 2007, a
breakthrough occurred. In a short time span
of a few days, countless cute pandas have
popped up out of nowhere across thousands of
breeding ground in China’s wild cyber
space.
January 11 is an unforgettable
day in the memories of a Chinese journalist
surnamed Shao. When he was working at his
computer, the screen went blank abruptly.
After restart, all of his window.exe files
underwent a sudden DNA mutation, and the
rapid evolution saw an army of pandas coming
to burn the incense to him.
Worm.Nimaya, with a Chinese
name 熊猫烧香 (Panda Burning
Incense), is a powerful Trojan agent. It
drops Desktop_.ini which serves as an
infection marker in all folders, and
transfers virus automatically. When a .exe
file is infected, an image of the
incense-burning panda would be cloned into
existence.
Since the Boxing Day
earthquake off the coast of Taiwan that
damaged several key underwater cables, the
Internet connections between China and
overseas have yet to be fully restored. Now
with the giant pandas coming to meddle in the
already confused situation by holding hostage
the websites of multinational businesses and
government organisations numbered in
thousands, China’s super info highway to
the world may have to remain under
construction for a while, for a little longer
while.
