He didn’t sleep that night. He ran a virus scan on the drive from his home PC. Nothing. He checked the file size: 127MB. It was supposed to be 128. One megabyte was missing.
He’d downloaded it from a forum with a neon-green color scheme and a banner that read “No install. No trace. No limits.” The file was a phantom: Vegas9_Portable.exe . It lived on his keychain, next to a tarnished Lego Star Wars stormtrooper. Sony Vegas Pro 9 Portable
Leo’s mouth went dry. He unplugged the USB drive. The computer instantly rebooted. He didn’t sleep that night