Fourteen-year old Peter Dempsey hates computers. He is beginning the first required computer course at school,
PC 101. While doing homework for his computer class - on his old dinosaur of a computer he has at home in his
bedroom - during a thunderstorm, the house is struck by lightning. The bolt goes through the circuits and
keyboard and gives Peter quite a shock. Following this lightning incident the secret world living inside of the
computer comes alive and reveals itself to Peter.
Seventeen-year old Terry Williams loves computers. He has all of the latest techno gadgets available on the
market. He is a computer whiz. He views the Internet as the largest game board in the world. He begins working
for his dad, who works for a company who creates patches used to fix computer viruses. The problem is, Terry also
creates computer viruses bringing havoc to the entire computer world.
It is Peter's newfound friends, the packets (which are the bits, the ones and zeros living within the computer)
that help reveal the source of one of the worst computer viruses ever to be unleashed on the Internet.
Virus Games is a fun and intriguing story. I loved going inside the computer and seeing it from the
inside out through the packets. The chapters alternate between Peter Dempsey who lives in Indiana and Terry
Williams who lives in Montana.