[Ti] i386 viruses

Shawn King shawn at yourmaclife.com
Fri Nov 25 18:51:08 PST 2005




On 11/25/05 7:57 PM, "Mikael Byström" <mikael.bystrom at punkass.com> wrote:

> Chris Olson said:
> 
>> By no means impossible on OS X, just harder to make it work.
> 
> Weren't there a public contest some time ago with the objective to write
> malicious code that appeared to be benign? I don't remember the details
> just now.

Yes - some idiot (Jack Campbell) put up a "bounty" for "who ever wrote a
virus for Mac OS X". He soon realized the errors of his ways and backed out
of the "contest" when various lawyers filled him in on how much people could
sue him for.
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