Wang Jiangmin, the earliest anti-virus expert in China, is honored by the industry as “the father of Anti-virus software in China”, “the first anti-virus in China”. In the first half of his life, Wang Jiangmin is the model of Disabled young Chinese. In the second half of his life, he is the founder of China’s security software and leads China’s commercial software to go abroad for the first time. Wang Jiangmin is known as the most legendary intellectual hero in Zhongguancun. His story inspired one ordinary young man after another.

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Wang Jiangmin was born in 1951 to an ordinary family in Yantai, Shandong Province. His childhood was tortured by fate.

When I was in the first grade, my crippled leg was crushed by a cyclist. But Wang Jiangmin is not willing to surrender to fate, god does not let him do things, he must do, but also he made it. His leg is not convenient, but he just like climbing, in order to learn to ride a bicycle, Wang Jiangmin often fell black and blue, finally he still learned to ride a bicycle. He could only dive and not swim, but he learned to swim because he was fishing at the beach in the third grade and the tide couldn’t come back to shore.

The physical disability was a double blow to Wang Jiangmin, both physically and psychologically. However, what made Wang Jiangmin desperate was that he could not find a job after graduation. At that time, no factory was willing to hire him.

Finally, in 1971, a street factory was willing to accept Wang Jiangmin, or Wang Jiangmin in the way of free pay. Wang Jiangmin finally got the chance to work.

The golden scale is not in the pool, a change in the wind and the dragon.

Wang Jiangming got the job opportunity, less than three years of work, Wang Jiangmin became the factory’s technical backbone and innovation expert, took several national patents, but also was awarded the “national new Long March pacesman”, “national youth self-taught growth pacesman”, “national self-improvement model” and many other titles.

He took classes in his spare time and was admitted to a vocational college. When the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, he wanted to take the college entrance examination to change his fate, but because the factory could not leave him, the factory refused to let him go, so he had to give up.

In 1988, Wang Jiangmin, who was nearly forty years old, suddenly realized that he would lag behind if he did not learn computer in the process of mechanical and electrical automation. In his own words:

“I started to learn computer at the age of 38. I didn’t feel that I was old and I couldn’t do it. I just felt that my English foundation was not good. Besides, computer is a very practical subject. I use computers, not study them.”

At that time, Wang Jiangmin’s son just entered the first grade of primary school, the teacher required parents to work out 50 mouth calculations every day, which was boring and time-consuming. At that time, Wang Jiangmin happened to learn programming language, with the idea of putting theory into practice, developed the first set of tutoring software, used to solve his son’s first to second grade math problems.

And this is just wang Jiangmin to do to the son counseling homework of the small program, obtained at that time popular “computer newspaper” second, and the first is gold hill development of WPS disk version.

At that time, Computer News gave Wang 25 yuan for each set of teaching software it sold. Three months later, he received more than 800 yuan, which is also wang jiangmin’s first bucket of gold in the Internet field. It can be seen that Wang Jiangmin’s learning talent is more rebellious, and perseverance is more terrible. If you’re in your late 40s, you’re probably starting to focus on raising the next generation.

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Due to the late start of China’s computer, the overall technical level of China at that time is not as good as foreign countries, foreigners will always laugh at the Poor Chinese ability, even an anti-virus software can not be compiled, and we Chinese of course is not to be outdone, we not only want to build the best, but also make you more crack. It wasn’t long before Chinese computer viruses were invented, and Chinese viruses, unlike foreign ones, were mostly hoaxes. A virus made in China can really damage computers.

These viruses give foreign programmers no small trouble, and these viruses also brought wang Jiangmin great trouble, but things also have two sides, if it were not for these viruses, “Father of Chinese virus” title also do not know who will be spent, and Wang Jiangmin also do not know in which direction to work hard.

Back then, antivirus cards were used to protect against viruses. At that time, various anti-virus cards flowed in the market, with a large market share. However, Wang Jiangmin not only did not mindlessly enter the market of anti-virus cards, but also realized the disadvantages of anti-virus cards.

Wang Jiangmin thinks, although anti-virus card can let major virus cannot invade, but this is a hardware equipment from beginning to end, depend on external equipment itself to be attacked more likely by virus above all, peripheral need is bought alone next install, the process is multifarious and operate inconvenience.

Wang Jiangmin clearly recognize this, so he has insisted that the anti-virus should be like Dayu water control, can not block, can only thin, find the root cause, to really solve the problem, must use a means to thoroughly solve him. An idea dedicated to doing anti-virus software gradually took shape.

Wangjiangmin the C – Brian virus was discovered in 1988, the family of representative work – “stone” and “small ball” : then he jiangmin software is popular, market share is very big, but many users are bad to use, many customers in the computer virus can’t work normally, jiangmin science and technology, reputation and market is also gradually erosion wangjiangmin and immediately began to study the virus.

When he looked into it, he found that it wasn’t the software that was doing it badly, but that it was being interfered with by some malicious program. Wang Jiangmin at this point formally began to commit to anti-virus software, and when Wang Jiangmin began to study, Wang Jiangmin single-minded on the whole above, a day does not kill a little bit of virus feeling little bit of what.

Wang Jiangmin also encountered a lot of difficult to solve point virus, but no matter how difficult the virus encountered, and the idea of wang Jiangmin can always find novel ideas to solve. Wangjiangmin was the greatest pleasure is the study of others sent virus, there are a lot of people at that time because the original kv is too expensive, wangjiangmin will agree as long as the virus sent to wangjiangmin and study, you can get a free copy of kv, a steady stream of people find wangjiangmin will they get the virus to wangjiangmin research, wangjiangmin technology on virus at that time have greatly improved.

He also has a habit, is to kill a virus on the newspapers and periodicals published an article, published this section of the program to kill the virus, so that this section of the virus no place to hide. Later, Wang Jiangmin felt that these independent anti-virus programs are very troublesome to use, so he integrated six programs to kill different viruses together, named KV6, and later developed to KV8, KV12, KV18, and KV20.

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We said before wang Jiangmin’s anti-virus technology has a great promotion, that his anti-virus technology and how fierce?

There was a virus in the computer of a foreign company’s Branch in China. The computer couldn’t start at all. After using all the anti-virus software from abroad, the computer was still paralyzed. The company hired an American expert, at a hefty cost of $30,000, who spent most of the day fixing the computer, but it was still not fixed. Later the company invited Wang Jiangmin, he quickly put this is what kind of virus, how to solve the clear, sure enough, less than half an hour, Wang Jiangmin put 20 computer viruses all clean.

Wang jiangmin saw the momentum and launched the KV300, priced at about 220 yuan, which allowed Beijing Jiangmin Technology Co., Ltd. to develop rapidly at that time. But just as he was riding high, a blow was coming quietly.

Anyone who lived through the early era of software piracy should be well aware of how rampant software piracy was in the 1990s, with countless businesses going bankrupt due to piracy, and jiangmin antivirus still does the same. At that time, jiangmin anti-virus software each update after a week will appear piracy, which directly led to jiangmin anti-virus market sales bleak.

Due to the lack of laws on technology patents in China at that time and the relatively weak patent awareness of ordinary people, Wang Jiangmin, as a victim, was not understood for his legitimate rights protection and could not find a way to defend his rights.

Frustrated by the piracy, Wang released the network version of KV300L++ on the Internet homepage and added the “logic bomb”, also known as the “Jiangmin Bomb”, to the version. Wang jiangmin also warned online not to update KV antivirus software, as it will cause the computer to crash once it is updated.

But at that time had been carried away by the interests of the pirates how likely to listen to Wang Jiangmin’s words, you do not let me update, I just will, I not only to update and crack him, but also sent on the Internet.

But the pirates seem to be underestimated wang Jiangmin’s energy, the use of pirated computers are all dead, this can let the pirates sit, the public opinion attack on the net also let Wang Jiangmin vexed.

As Wang jiangmin’s move had a huge impact on society, the incident was also targeted by CCTV news. Later, CCTV reported Wang Jiangmin’s “logic bomb incident” in the news broadcast, and in front of more than one billion viewers, Jiangmin Technology paid a fine of 3,000 yuan in exchange for a publicity effect that could not reach 300,000 yuan.

As for this is a marketing means or jiangmin forced to make the move on the matter of opinion, but no matter how the outcome, this is killing the enemy one thousand self loss eight hundred behavior, Wang Jiangmin’s reputation and image, was greatly hurt.

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The news broadcast report pushed Wang Jiangmin to the tide of public opinion, but also made more people know wang Jiangmin this person, KV anti-virus software picked up again, Jiangmin science and technology reached the peak.

But in jiangmin science and technology complacently, Jinshan announced to enter the field of anti-virus, by jinshan company “jinshan poison tyrant” in the form of free entry, with free strategy to wash the market again, Wang Jiangmin KV anti-virus software market share began to decline.

At that time, a senior university student made a software virus called CIH, the power of jiangmin bomb, even the computer industry once called it “computer butcher”, all the big computers were recruited.

At that time, Wang jiangmin saw this as a good opportunity to increase the market weight of Jiangmin technology, and immediately placed advertisements in major newspapers promising to help consumers repair their computers. At that time, there were even 600 or 700 people lined up in front of jiangmin Company.

River civilian science and technology returned the appearance when peak again it seems, but regretful is auspicious star cleared CIH virus first, won the position that he is in the head big boss in killing poisonous software.

In 2002, Jinshan began to hit the price war will originally 199 yuan jinshan drug bully dropped to 50 yuan. But Wang Jiangmin does not depreciate, and insipid ground say: “let jinshan make, because they are in the skill of technology has been all used up, have to play such gimmick.”

But Wang Jiangmin’s contempt is obviously a wrong decision. Whatever you do, you have to pay a price. The price jiangmin Technology pays is the decline in market share. Jinshan company announced to use jinshan drug bully for free again in 2005, jinshan quickly occupied the market, the scales of the leader of anti-virus software seemed to begin to tilt to Jinshan.

In 2009, the era of charging for antivirus software has come to an end, but Jiang Ming seems to be one of the misfits, he still insists on charging.

Wang Jiangmin is very smart, but he is also very stubborn, and even stubborn to do one thing to the extreme will be willing to give up, which can be seen in Wang Jiangmin’s childhood learning all kinds of things he could not have learned.

Price in succession in so many anti-virus software, jiangmin science and technology is the only thing the kv antivirus software does not reduce the price, it seems that he is the NiXingZhe era, to compete with their own strength to the whole the tide of The Times, the people look very stupid, even a little stay leng, but it is not his stubborn, helped him learn various seems to be everybody looks cannot do? No longer insist to do their own Wang Jiangmin or the father of the virus? Only the wang Jiangmin who insists all the time is the true Father of China killing poison, his stubbornness makes him much a charm.

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In April 2010, Wang Jiangmin died of a heart attack as he was about to put fish into a fish bag while fishing.

At his memorial service, almost all of his competitors came. Major antivirus software has turned the official website into black and white. Mourning the departure of wang Jiangmin, the father of anti-virus software.

Fan Feng, an Internet veteran on the Chinese mainland, said Wang was a “trailblazer in the field of anti-virus security in the Chinese mainland.

Beijing Tianrongxin technology company issued condolences, said wang Jiangmin brother’s departure is a major loss of the security industry.

Kaspersky today issued condolence, said Wang Jiangmin’s death is a great loss to China’s anti-virus field. He is not only a successful entrepreneur in the anti-virus industry, but also a respected competitor.

“As one of the most legendary first-generation programmers in China, Wang jiangmin has made indelible contributions to China’s information security field,” said Qiu Bojun, CEO of Kingsoft.

Later jiangmin science and technology was inherited by Wang Jiangmin’s son, but jiangmin science and technology also gradually disappeared in the tide of The Times.

The passing of legendary Wang Jiangmin took away an era.

Although jiangmin technology has withdrawn quietly in the tide of The Times, Wang Jiangmin is the leader and founder of China’s information security, and also gives many ordinary people born in the grass roots and the disabled a lamp in the night, giving them the power to continue to move forward in the dark.

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