Chapter 25
Virus and Mercenaries
“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
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I SWITCHED ON MY COMPUTER this morning and my screen was filled with a lot of incomprehensible digitized garble. There was a virus in our systems.
We were under a virus attack, not the kind where a person gets all spotty, turns green and then curls up his toes and dies. We were invaded by hackers, who had planted viruses in our systems.
Our IT department needed to use all their latest anti-virus software to stop the computer viruses, worms and spy-ware from causing any further damage to our systems. Our IT department had also created a program which scans our systems looking and annihilating malicious software t
