> the virus had gotten out of control, which I didn't mean it to do
This isn't just a whoops, how do you "accidentally" create a virus that leaves the boundaries of the computer and traverses their network?
I copied an existing virus someone had given me. The last part of the virus was to multiply and seek out any other computers attached to the network and delete and damage the files on those computers as well. I didn't know that. When it damaged the professors PC, he was using it on his home network, so he said there was only one PC it infected.
When he got back to campus, he sent the email to the network team (a group of students and professors) and they tried testing it out on a group of PC's. They thought the PC's were sandboxed. Turns out they weren't. The next 24 hours the virus rampaged and pillaged PC's attached all over the network. I'm still not sure how it eventually crashed the network. All the people involved refused to tell me exactly how it crashed their network - they said they didn't want me encouraging others to do it, so I was never told the full story.
To this day, I'm still not sure what happened, but it had to be bad enough to call in the Feds, right?
Save the malware there, then anybody on the network with access can run it.