The Virus

Jenna could not figure out why her friend Sarah hadn’t returned her email yet. Sarah was usually very fast about responding. Jenna checked her email every 10 seconds waiting for a new message to appear, but one never did.

Just then, Jenna got a message from her computer saying that a virus had been quarantined to a spot in the computer. Jenna was curious about the virus and click on the filter program in her computer. Sure enough, a virus was listed. Jenna soon realized that the virus had Sarah’s name in the message.

“What is going on?” thought Jenna. “Does Sarah have something to do with this virus? Is something wrong with Sarah’s computer?”

Jenna began searching her computer to find the location of the virus. She was uncertain how long this would take, so she decided to just call Sarah on the phone. She wanted to get to the bottom of this quickly before she had any viruses attack her computer.

Sarah’s mother explained that Sarah had not come home from school yet. Jenna knew that was not true. She had walked home with Sarah. Jenna was starting to get scared. She went back to the computer and sent a message to the virus program on her computer. Imagine her surprise when Sarah responded back.

“Dear Jenna, A computer virus has taken over my computer and taken over me!” Jenna didn’t know what to think. How could a virus do that? Jenna began to shake.