Around 3:00 AM, a chat window popped up on his admin dashboard. It was a user from a rural IP address in Kentucky. User: "Is this safe? My computer is old and it’s all I have for school."
He deleted the macro. He reached into his "clean" drive—the one without the trackers, the one he used for his own legacy builds—and uploaded a tiny, 2MB file called Legacy_Patch.zip . Around 3:00 AM, a chat window popped up
The user didn't reply for ten minutes. Then: User: "The watermark is gone. Thank you so much." Around 3:00 AM