£10,000 Prize for Linux Virus Challenge Re-Issued

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday October 13, 2001 @03:45AM from the take-two dept.

mutantcamel writes "Eddie Bleasdale, the director of NetProject has been offering £10,000 to the first hacker to infect his Linux machine with a virus for the last two years, and so far no one has hit the jackpot. He's re-announced his challenge to virus writers following a Gartner report which told IT depts. not to trust MS server software because of recent worm attacks on their servers, but a Microsoft exec said yesterday that the hugely successful worm attacks were due to 'tardy' sysadmins."

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Does it have to be a virus? by neema · 2001-10-13 03:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Does he just want his linux box destroyed or does it have to be a virus? He can give me his address, I'll gladly fly down to his house and smash up his linux box with a bat for 10,000 pounds (that's around 14,534 dollars and 22 cents).