Every time she dragged the files to the trash, they reappeared. She ran antivirus. She wiped her temp folders. She even reformatted her external drive. Nothing worked. The folder gamesfreesoft was still there, nestled between her Steam library and her thesis drafts, like it had always belonged.

They wouldn’t go.

User not found. Try again.

The download took less than a second.

And a new message blinked at the bottom of the list: