>”Hey Kurt? I think my computer is messed up.”
>Kurt looked up from his phone and squinted at the Luxray peeking through the doorway to his room.
>”What do you mean messed up? I saw it was working fine when you were using it last night.”
>Larson scoffed, “Yeah I know it was fine last night, but now I can’t even do anything on it. Takes forever to open anything up, if it even works at all.”
>Kurt groaned as he stood up from his bed, “Alright, let me check the damage. Did you try turn-“
>”Turning it off and on again, uh-huh, already tried. I’m not THAT helpless.”
>The Inteleon snickered as he walked in to the living room to troubleshoot the issue.
>”Son of a…”
>Kurt rolled his eyes and grumbled as the PC froze up for the eighth time in the past minute.
>The fans sounded like a jet engine trying to take off. Poor computer was absolutely drowning.
>After an hour of waiting, a virus scan finally finished and found nothing wrong.
>Dubious that Larson actually tried, Kurt attempted to restart the PC. Didn't help either.
>Whatever Larson did really messed it up. Kurt swore he was as computer illiterate as his grandparents.
>Probably downloaded a bitcoin miner or something.
>After what felt like ages, task manager finally popped up, which confirmed that both the CPU and memory were completely hogged by something called PgZ.exe.
>Nothing about it showed on the internet either.
>Of course, trying to manually kill or remove the program did nothing. Flagging it for the antivirus to wipe out was a dud as well.
>Hopefully someone at the local computer repair shop could take a look and get rid of this thing, because Kurt was out of his depth on this one.
>”Really gonna need to teach you to not click on random links,” Kurt fussed as he stood up to gather his wallet and keys.
>”Hey, don’t blame me for something I didn’t do! Seriously, all I did was watch some videos last night. Didn’t download anything!” Larson complained.