Large Prize Offered For Writing Mac Virus

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 26, 2005 @06:36AM 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."

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Re:Stupid by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-26 06:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Never mind this rubbish, Dr. Who starts in 10 minutes (BBC1) :)
Re:Stupid by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-26 06:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Dr. Who started a month ago (Internet) :)
Plurals by lafuerzasindical · 2005-03-26 09:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's not "virii".
Re:Balance by ratsnapple+tea · 2005-03-26 16:47 · 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.