Well-known works of art, usually with elaborate background story or associated with a complex history, but works of art in this article may be an exception ...... it is a most dangerous viruses loaded with six world on a laptop.
Recently, the network of modern artists Guo even East (Guo O Dong) in cooperation with the security firm Deep Instinct, will ILOVEYOU, MyDoom, SoBig, WannaCry, DarkTequila and BlackEnergy six models of well-known malicious software implanted on a laptop.
This "computer virus" works have been named "confusion persists" (The Persistence of Chaos). East Guo even put it into the site on the open auction, as of this writing, the work price reached $ 1,345,000 (equivalent to about 9.3 million yuan).
△ "confusion persists" prototype Samsung NC10
A computer virus is only able to sell a few implants so expensive? First of all we need to realize that this laptop implanted virus are well-known large head, great harm. Among them, "ILOVEYOU" appeared as early as in 2000, took only four hours to spread worldwide, it spreads via e-mail, the number of computer sabotage over 500,000 units. "SoBig", "MyDoom" as the worm spread quickly, were caused huge losses of billions of dollars. Malware "BlackEnergy" directly led to the end of 2015, large-scale power outages in Ukraine. And in recent years the best-known "WannaCry" - associated with it a loss of nearly $ 4 billion.
Overall the virus has caused the value of 95 billion US dollars in economic losses. And the notebook will harm these figures materialized, showing the digital world real threat to us. Even East Guo expressed that he would like this work seen as "a historical threat directory exists."
Currently, this computer is only as works of art or academic reasons to sell, as long as people do not connect the computer to Wi-Fi, or insert USB, you can make sure it's absolutely safe. And at the end of the auction, computer port and Internet capabilities will all disabled to ensure that the next one will not lead to catastrophe Internet.