Jay pressed enter and they both watched as the disk light on the infected machine lit up. It stayed that way for a minute, two minutes. Finally, it went out and the DOS window's flashing cursor returned.
Jay played Chop Suey on the machine again. He looked at Maddy, who nodded. Clean. He checked the processes on the machine and the available disk space. All back to normal.
“I think we got it,” said Jay. “I'll package it as an XOrcist update.”
“Except we can't can we? Karl made that very clear, believe me.”
Jay shrugged.
“We'll just FTP it up to one of the others. Jenny or Roger. They can send it out.”
“Not without Karl's approval.”
“Actually, it's easy to do without Karl's approval.”
It was the same the world over. Management put passwords and sign-offs around vital data, terrified
