
If you haven’t heard of this it’s not because it didn’t happen. It did. DVForge announced a Mac OS X Virus Writing Contest. The prize? $25,000 to the first hacker who could create a Mac virus to infect a couple of Macs running OS X.
As you’d suspect, the contest was suspect from the beginning and lasted so long that the start and stop headlines were on the same line.
Here’s the deal. There are no known “in the wild” viruses for Apple’s Mac OS X Panther operating.... (excerpted).
Jack Campbell said:
Well… it’s almost 4-years later, and still zero in-the-wild Mac viruses.
I should have kept the contest going.
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zingzoo said:
Contest held by IDIOTS! No pro virus writer is just going to show up like that. Plus their attention would have to be kept. This is the typical thing a mactard does. Finally why challenge them to something that’s even rare to happen on windows computers? Do you have any clue what percentage of malware is viruses that run wild? Very, VERY few of them. But ti’s these same idiots that will get the torjan horses in the future because they are so naive.