You need to try and hack the mainframe, not the other servers. But now that you have the other systems, you've got what you need to have basic access to the mainframe. How do you make your connection look like it's coming from the other server?

"trusted system owned by the same company", hmm?

I wonder how one might find other systems owned by ARC?

Actually we did brilliantly out of the Steam sale. I'll say! I had not heard of these games before, but my boyfriend has played all of them. He bought the package for himself and me (for $5 I probably would have bought this myself anyways even knowing nothing of the games), and I'm sure some of his...

Yeah, the bypass only stalls active traces. It's not necessary if you know the password (be it your account or someone else's).

Sounds like you got passive traced for not deleting your log in your bank since you directly connected to it directly instead of bouncing through InterNIC. :(

There are a couple things you can do. To reset your settings to default, you can delete the 'options' file for Uplink. To get there, you need to find your Steam folder, go to Uplink. You'll find the file in the Users folder. For Windows systems, it's usually something like Program Files>Steam>steama...