K yeah i'm stuck at a point now. I'm at one of those hacking a bank to get someones current bank balance...but the decrypter is god-awful slow and it never completes before I get caught. And i'm broke! And all the other tasks are nothing but bank/money tasks! What the hell can I do now LoL.
Heh, yeah, I'd avoid doing those missions for a while; they're very painful at lower levels.
There are no time limits in Uplink so if you don't want to flat-out abandon the mission you could keep it there until you earn enough money.
Sadface :< I just began to upgrade my computer, too :/
I thought I erased all the logs pertaining to that. I know I wasn't actively traced, but I thought I got my records from interNIC deleted.
[lol huge screenshot]
If you see that screen, you've been traced somehow; might have taken too long getting rid of the logs. Some ISMs (internal service machines) do have pretty decent monitors -- up to level 4 in some cases -- when you get to the higher level missions (and, on some annoying cases, even on lower-level missions, though you only get a fine for getting caught on those, I think).
If you're going to hack, just make sure that InterNIC is your first bounce. Always. Also, make sure you have a long enough bounce path so that there's no chance of getting busted. If you need servers, seed your list with InterNIC. It comes in handy to have a nice, healthy list of servers available, especially when you start dealing with central mainframes.