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Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus

Posted by Zonk on from the come-get-some dept.

Mordant writes "Some experienced Mac developers are offering a $25K prize to the first person to successfully infect two 'naked' Internet-connected Macs running stock Apple software. The best part is that if any Symantec employee succeeds in infecting the Macs, the prize goes up to $50K (Symantec has been fanning the flames of totally bogus "Macs aren't more secure, it's just that Windows is a bigger target" technical-equivalence propaganda)!" Update: 03/26 20:24 GMT by Z : Well, that was quick. Jack Campbell has cancelled the contest, after he "...was contacted by a large number of Mac users, and Mac software professionals who shared their thinking with me about the contest."

2 of 669 comments (clear)

  1. Plurals by lafuerzasindical · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's not "virii".

  2. Re:Balance by ratsnapple+tea · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dude, I'm sorry to be blunt, but you don't know what you're talking about. Please never design a UI.