“Okay,” I said, glancing up at her again. She seemed to have more color in her cheeks. “It’s all set up.” I backed out of the proxy chain, making everything completely untraceable. I waited the half-minute and then logged into the email server.
“See?” I said, pointing to the email in my inbox. “It looks like it’s coming from an address at the company. The subject line read “Important security update.” That always works well. “As soon as they open the email, it starts the program running, accessing the public website over and over and collecting their email addresses to send out a personal email from their own email address so it can propagate itself.”
“Holy s**t,” she said in a different kind of voice. I looked behind myself. Both of her hands were gripping the back of my chair. She look
