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Monday, April 9th, 9:30 AM; Tracy Island

Tin-Tin smiled at Brains as she entered the lab and walked over to her computer. She turned it on and started to bring up a window, when it signaled her that there was a security problem. "Brains, look at this. Something's gotten into the system."

He hurried over to look. "That's strange; it didn't show up when I started my computer. Let me see." She relinquished her chair to him and stood behind, watching as he entered a few commands. "There, I've isolated it. I'll transfer it to my computer and check it out." He got up and she sat back down to continue what she had been doing.

Two hours later, Brains said, "Tin-Tin, what were you doing when you got the security notification?"

"Opening my email. Why?"

"This appears to be a self-replicating virus that copies whatever you type and can be retrieved by whomever sent it. And it seems to have entered through one of your emails. When was the last time you checked your mailbox?"

"Yesterday morning. I was so busy the rest of the day, and so tired last night, I didn't look again. Oh dear, could it have spread to--"

"Don't worry, Tin-Tin. For some reason, it wouldn't infiltrate anything until you went on the computer again. But it's a good thing you didn't try to log onto the IR server. What a security breach that would have been!"

"Then it isn't a threat any longer?"

"No, but I need to find out how it got past my virus scans, and where it came from. What emails did you open yesterday?" She told him and gave him the addresses. He sighed. "I have so many other projects to do, but this one has a high priority. I'll never get all of it done."

"Isn't that why Mr. Tracy recruited Lena? Why don't you give her a call and have her look at it. She might even have a way to keep it from happening again."

Brains looked at Tin-Tin with admiration and gratitude. "I'm so glad you're here to remind me of things I should remember myself. I can't imagine why I didn't think of that. Especially when I just spoke to her yesterday morning."

"You did? Why? How is she?"

"She's fine. She was sent her new communications device, put into a PDA. I called her to get her used to it and answer any questions she might have had."

"Questions? I'd be surprised to hear she had any."

He chuckled. "Only one, and of course it wasn't technical. She just wanted to know why there was an emergency signaler in it. She'd already been over pretty much the whole thing, including the instructions for activation of the different features, standard and non."

"Well, I'll leave you to give her a call. I didn't eat much breakfast; I was worried about my father. And now, I'm starving, so I'm going to get some lunch. Will you be coming after your call or shall I bring you something?"

"I'll come, I'll come. I'll need to apprise Mr. Tracy of this new development. Don't say anything to him. I'll want to give him a full report -- or as full a report as I can, later."

Tin-Tin smiled at him, then left for the Villa. Brains watched her go, then turned to his phone, and after calculating the time differences, remembering that it was Daylight Savings Time in the United States, placed the call.

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