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.
