The army decker had responded quickly to the frame— too quickly !—holding a macroplast riot shield up before him, blocking the ronin’s tetsubo blow. But that meant his attention wasn’t focused on Sly herself for a critical instant. The virus dart flew true, slipped past the riot shield, bit deep into the icon’s chest. Jurgensen howled in outrage as the virus code began to replicate in his cyberdeck, allocating the deck’s operating memory to itself, preventing it from being used for anything else. Unless the decker didn't act fast to eliminate the virus, soon it would take over all unused memory, then start on the memory containing his own utilities, flushing them from the deck and eventually dumping him.