Magnus, being only slightly shorter than Optimus, helped Jazz and the Prime to get the unconcious mech to the room he'd been given and then left, though not before he gave Optimus a concerned frown and ran a finger down the side of the gash in the chestplates. Not that it was anything but a slightly-deeper than superficial gash, but he could still be concerned.
The problem with the shell-program seemed to be that it did not run all the time. While the override and sub-routine the program had activated could be found with some digging (and giving a nice list of possible targets, civilian, military and political, but only a small amount of them anything Megatron, as per his rebellion, would have been even remotely interested in), everything else made it seem like there was no shell-program.
Whoever had done it, and made it well, and hid it well, too. It could be unearthed and gotten rid of, obviously, but not immediately, and it'd take time.
::... Looking at what you have, it seems like the best we can do is if you two can disable and scrub that particular override and sub-routine from his processors,:: Prowl, reviewing what Ratchet and Jazz were finding from where he was sitting elsewhere, muttered over the comm.
::While there might be, and I would even expect there to be, duplicates, they can't, by necessity, be exactly the same as this one, which would help us, and this way, we have a slight chance at least that no one's going to get assassinated.:: Another few seconds pause along with the faint buzz of several other comm conversations being held briefly.
::Prime, my suggestion would be to disable his comms and put in a physical limiter. That way the shell-program, if there is another way of activating it, can't stealth-disable the disabled comm.::
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Date: 2012-04-09 11:42 pm (UTC)The problem with the shell-program seemed to be that it did not run all the time. While the override and sub-routine the program had activated could be found with some digging (and giving a nice list of possible targets, civilian, military and political, but only a small amount of them anything Megatron, as per his rebellion, would have been even remotely interested in), everything else made it seem like there was no shell-program.
Whoever had done it, and made it well, and hid it well, too. It could be unearthed and gotten rid of, obviously, but not immediately, and it'd take time.
::... Looking at what you have, it seems like the best we can do is if you two can disable and scrub that particular override and sub-routine from his processors,:: Prowl, reviewing what Ratchet and Jazz were finding from where he was sitting elsewhere, muttered over the comm.
::While there might be, and I would even expect there to be, duplicates, they can't, by necessity, be exactly the same as this one, which would help us, and this way, we have a slight chance at least that no one's going to get assassinated.:: Another few seconds pause along with the faint buzz of several other comm conversations being held briefly.
::Prime, my suggestion would be to disable his comms and put in a physical limiter. That way the shell-program, if there is another way of activating it, can't stealth-disable the disabled comm.::