The virus that the woman had wasn’t properly understood.
Professional opinions had differed about that. The tests didn’t seem to be helping. It was getting her down. All that could be said with certainty was that it was new. It had not been seen before, and because it had been in her system, undetected for some time, the thing was changing. It was mutating. It was travelling to different parts. This transformation seemed to allow it to modify itself to some degree. This would worry those who studied it because it was not something any of the experts had so far encountered. Over a period it seemed to take on the ability to communicate with its surroundings. That way it could adapt to any changing conditions. It became unstoppable.
Finally, she came to the conclusion that her pc’s antivirus software was just not up to the job of protecting her personal computer.
She would have to bite the bullet and buy new software.
