Excel opened. Clean grid. Green corner. No welcome video, no sign-in prompt. He imported the corrupted file, and the recovery wizard rebuilt his data row by row.
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Second try: a dusty forum where users typed in ALL CAPS. “DO NOT TRUST ANYTHING EXCEPT ORIGINAL ISO,” read a post from 2014. Someone had shared a Google Drive link. It was still alive. Leo hesitated—then remembered his aunt’s warning: “If it feels like a back alley, it is.” Excel opened