Hey, thanks for the reply! You actually CAN gain extra bytes and infection progress by interacting with the main desktop. If you press CTRL you zoom back into the desktop and on some menus there are green INFECT buttons that you can click to gain extra bytes and infection progress. Maybe try again with this knowledge and see if you can beat it :) I am aware this isn't explained super well in the game but yknow, 48 hour jam, crunch time, didnt get everything in as we wanted perfectly, and all that. I love the idea of upgrading your bytes per infection and I might even add that as an update in a post-jam version. Thank you!