When a young computer expert and friend of Frank Hardy is poisoned, Frank and Joe access his computer to find the answers. Frank is about to go online to talk with his computer whiz pal Jim Lerner when a message flashes across his screen: HELP! I THINK I'M DYING! The Hardy Boys rush to Jim's house, where they find him unconscious, the victim of a life threatening poison! Frank and Joe suspect that Jim stumbled onto an international smuggling ring, but the key to the case is locked away in his floppy disks. They have only one week to break the program's code and to find the vital antidote to the poison! If they fail, this is one computer virus that could lead to TERMINAL SHOCK.