It arrived in the small hours—no packaging fanfare, no glossy box art—just a compact thumbdrive humming like a pocket-sized contraband. The label, typed in a plain sans-serif font, read: CleanGenius Pro 324 — Portable Extra Quality. Names carry promises; this one promised swiftness and an almost surgical precision. I plugged it into the laptop and watched the machine blink awake as if it recognized an old ally returning to finish unfinished work.