The sale proved to be the catalyst for John Reese's and Kara Stanton's fateful trip to Ordos, China, having been sent after the laptop under the impression that it contained partial source code of a virus similar to Stuxnet. A version of the virus was eventually released by Stanton under the direction of Decima Technologies. (“Dead Reckoning”) The virus attacked the Machine, triggering a hard reset which put it into full administrative mode for a time, and afterward Finch confessed that he had built the original virus, which was adapted by Decima. According to Finch, he "hid a virus within a virus" so when Decima's virus was downloaded to the Machine, so was Finch's. (“God Mode”)