Containment

The schools in Crisco County were all linked together in their own little WAN, with a small connection to the big expanse outside of the network. The WAN was used for videoconferencing, sharing information, and now, spreading one of a thousand of those damned Windows worms. By the end of the school day, almost every computer in every school in the county, except for South Haven, which patched their systems religiously, and Covert, which was still using Windows 98 and therefore amazingly immune to this particular worm, was displaying the Trinity and Pains, changing backdrops every 90 seconds.
Indeed, the worm had pushed the incident in Trinity Middle School's library out of the spotlight, for this was directly -- and disgustingly -- affecting most of the other schools in the area. Many elementary school students, and a not-insignificant number of middle- and high-schoolers, would be having nightmares about the Pains, those two collages of the Trinity, mutilations, and infections. The Trinity by itself led to bathrooms and classrooms splattered with puke. Innocent little LCD and DLP projectors became weapons of mass nauseation.
In one elementary school class, two kids were going to present their social studies project, done in FrontPage, with tons of IE-only animations and a neato VBScript that made the page "sparkle". They came up to the super-podium in the front of the classroom and put the screen down with the push of a button. The first thing the rest of the class saw on the screen was the Harlequin Fetus, with its cracked and bleeding armor plating, solid red eyeballs, and big red "smile". And when one of the kids fired up Internet Explorer, the home page revealed the suspension notice for the original Goatse site. Though the class had been spared from one of the atrocities, the crying and scared kids were proof that the Trinity had made its mark on their fragile eggshell minds.
Since he had heard about it on the news, Reginald closely followed the spread of the worm through a hastily-developed site hosted by the Crisco County Intermediate School District. To see whether this worm was like the one he had removed from the Digital Bean's machines, Reginald read the CCISD's description of the worm twice, and then again. After the last reading, he was certain that Claryssa's Trinity-and-Pains worm had somehow gotten into the ISD's network.
At the CCISD administrative offices, the three MCSE's, Quasimodo the hunchback, John Watson the PC Tech teacher, and a Ron Jeremy lookalike, examined a few of the infected computers in the student lab, and found out that by running a batch file called "asshat.bat", located in the root directory of the system drive, the worm would uninstall itself and leave another file in the root directory, the contents of which read: "Y helo thar! This file marks this machine as off-limits to the Goatse worm.".
A solution had been found to the worm, but it would be a monstrous task, fortunately made simpler by an idea the trio had formulated: anyone who got onto a computer was to run the batch file.
"OMG its the b3st3st 1d34 3v32!" ejaculated Quasimodo.
"It's so simple, even an AOL user could do it!" said Watson.
"(LUEshi)," said the Ron Jeremy lookalike.
"(LUEshi), indeed," replied Watson. The trio soon left for the nearby Mexican restaurant for a victory feast, including plenty of tequila.
At this time, Reginald was at Claryssa's apartment to talk about the recent infection. He was clearly not pleased, about like Limecat when they put the lime on his head.
"So where did the dropper come from?" asked Reginald.
"I don't know where the dropper came from," said Claryssa. "Maybe that dum-dum from the Digital Bean brought it in."
"Didn't you have those thumb drives taped under the bottom shelf in your locker?"
"I took those out after we graduated... except that one, but that was an 8-meg anyhow..."
"And that one just happened to have the dropper on it."
"I think it did have the dropper on it, and the names and addresses of every student of every school in the county."
"Hopefully they don't find out that you grabbed those files in the first place."
"It was their fault, they put those files where any nosy student could get to them."
"ZOMG!!!"
Meanwhile, having discovered the files on the forgotten thumb drive, Larry plugged an old phone into the other jack on his modem and disconnected from AOL so that he could make obscene phone calls to the houses where the middle-school girls lived. He eventually got to the principal's daughter's record, and when he dialed the phone number in, an answering machine picked up.
The message consisted of an invitation for oral sex, and before Larry was through with his obscenity, the principal picked up and threatened to cut off Larry's legs, and then to kill him. All the while, Larry asked the principal if he would pleasure him. Needless to say, tomorrow was going to be an interesting day at school.