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Lol! This is too funny…

Reminds me of when I was in middle school, Use to install a mac virus that would tell the mac not to turn on the monitor at start-up so you would get people turn the machine on and off thinking it was broken lol. harmless fun >;)

lo!

While that’s fun, it is a little bit frightening in that it means people are targeting Macs now because they are “virgin systems.” And they can do it. There could be major email mac viruses in the near future. Alack.

sweeet

so cute.

but wicked.

To Matthew:

Yes, all mac users now should be scared of the evil world. This is a new form of terrorism against us, the United Fear of America. I’m quite sure Osama made this up together with Iran, so let’s bomb Iran for, well, we’ll have to find a reason afterwards, but let’s bomb it.

Anyways, this is a really hilarious thing these guys develeoped here and imho if more people would break the boundaries of virtuality and reality like they do, virtual art can really be taken serious.

Yikes - virus for Mac shocker! More worrying is the fact you might actually want it! Very cool…

I’d seen this before. It’s A M A Z I N G.
It’s also funny that even a ‘virus’ looks cool on a mac.

Try that, PC!

super cool. i want that virus! if it isn’t harmful to my mac

Very nice and impressive.
Rather than the virus I would prefer a Screen Saver or app creating the same effects, so I can see it more often.

Good idea?

Cute app, but misleading terms. Computer viruses replicate by injecting themselves into host software, like real viruses do to cells. If it doesn’t replicate, it’s not a virus. This is just malware.

It’s a movie !!! Where is the proof that there is a virus. It could be an OS X application that is launched with a timer or via bluetooth connection.

How can you think that photos or vidéos show the truth todays with all the tricks and special effects available to everybody.

I need a true demonstration in front of me to be sure, but like this, it has no value for me. The only fun is the gravity effect

Hey, since when the macbook includes a gyroscope?

Hahaha, now macs even have the better looking viruses.

A gyroscope is not necessary, only a multi-axis accelerometer. As long as there’s gravity to measure, you can measure which way it’s pulling to figure out which way is up!

It has actually a gyroscope it’s called Sudden Motion Sensor… you can check it out, it’s initially intended to detect a fall a protect the hard drive…

Well, the pedants and fanboys are already here so it’s only a few more posts before it all descends into a Mac vs PC flame war.

Virus? Malware? Another reason to love your Mac? I doubt you can really buy one though, but who cares, I call it amazing work. Love the product design too.

Since when does OS X allow something on a USB drive to execute automatically upon connection. I buy the rest of it, I know about the Sudden Motion Sensor (seen a great light-saber sound effect tool come from it), but the auto-run part has me stumped.

ahahahahahahaahahahaha coglioni!

Where to download it ?

I love it! but lets not get things confused again, a virus is a distractive application that is hard to get rid of, that is malicious in intent, and causes damage to something on your computer and you need a virus scanner to get rid of it or a clean format. This to me looks more like a fun app.

Calling this a virus is like calling a vegetarian a terrorist!

Use “Manual Over Ride”.

I didn’t know about the sudden motion sensor. Now it makes more sense for me.

The Sudden Motion Sensor, and apps that leverage it to do this sort of thing, are quite real.

The ‘virus’ aspect of this, and the suggestion that it was created in 2005 (prior to the SMS introduction on the mac), are patent hogwash.

Correction: the SMS was introed in 2005, with the G4 12″ and other G4s. So, I retract the 2005 statement. The ‘virus’ statement stands.

I doubt it even counts as malware. Until someone can explain how code from a USB dongle is executed without setting something up on the Mac first, I’ll call the distribution method a hoax. The effect is cool though and I’d like a copy of the code to show off to friends.

So ridiculously cool, where can I get one?

So this “virus” can only be programmed to run on a Mac because of the SMS?

Oh another comment, don’t try this when the person is doing their work, it could get physical

pretty cool.
But I think the ‘biting teeth’ of the USB should be facing the slot. So it looks like its biting at the macbook when its plugged it

Thanks,
~LVS

I with Craig, it looks like hoax method of distribution, but dock activation would be a great screensaver.

this newton program is a misuse of the word virus. get with it. use the word as it is actually defined.

it’s a prank program or logic bomb. it may be malware, depending on how it’s used.

a virus self-replicates and/or infects files. this does neither.

spyware reports identifiable user information secretly from the client computer. this does not do that.

it is not a virus. please understand what a definition is before using the word.

how do you turn it of again then?

Well ! .. where is it then ? where can I download it !

shame its useless. real workaholics NEVEr leave their position.

Would be cool if steve had this in his demo computer on upcoming macworld, but he did know about it and acted all surprised! It does show of the graphic engine and the advanced motion sensors built in to macbook/pro. i can hear whooowho in the room

Forget about it.
No login - no viruses.
It’s a UNIX!

1) Does it run only on Mac?
2) Is it downloadable?

Cool USB Gadget for my iMac G5 thanks

Oh let me get it as a screen saver. Please. :-))

how do u fix the virus?

I think is an application too, but very funny =D

This was fun! I wan’t it for my mbp:)

Were do i buy it?

wow! gimme a version for windows! awsome little thingy

Ahhhh! I’m not leaving my macbook by itself anymore!! NOOOO!! But it does look fun! But it does go back to normal…right?

Totally awesome!! If they designed one for windows, i’d totally buy it.

Even the Mac “Viruses” are more elegant and useful than their Windoze counterparts.

LOL
Good Job Troika

Windows… don’t be rediculus… MS can’t even make their own graphics display right.

BTW, While I agree with Denis (mostly, it’s BSD) the display generation for the desktop icons and menu bar is in the user’s space, so applications running as the users would have access to those memory registers. Additionally, while there is no autorun on mounted disks such as USB drives, there is the resource fork where the icon of the volume is stored. I could very easily see a buffer overflow in Finder as part of the loader.

I do not know how people can say this is harmless.

I’ll agree its a great idea, and lots of fun.

But, this is also a very dangerous security exploit,
and by changing the executed program into a real virus or malware,
the chances of the exploited getting back to work will be very slim.

(really, it doesnt matter if the name definition is correct or not. )

Could someone report on how the “virus” gets inside the host PC ?

about damn time macs get some sort of attention that wasn’t from macfags.

or atleast, macfags that can’t code shit.

There is 1 thing that is really amazing with the Mac.
Its really easy to shut down. Really, all you have to do is look at the screen or be working on something, and then *poof* its gone. I didnt click anything, I didnt even save. It’s awesome.

Unless you actually wanted the Mac to turn off. Well, that’s a bit different.
You close a program, and it freezes, then you press clover leaf and some other uselessy named button, then the whole thing freezes, so you press the power button, that does bugger all. Unplug it? Well let’s hope your not on a Laptop, then you gotta try and figure out how to remove the battery.

Seriously? Why does anyone waste time with Mac’s?
And worst of all Mac user’s are usually quite smug about the fact they use an OS that is incompetent, useless and incompatible with pretty much anything else.

Remember MacPuke?
I got it installed on my SE/30 which was my first Mac and it think I worn out the floppy drive during that day!
I was laughing everytime I ejected the floppydisk.

Those were the happy days.

Where can you download this shit?

btw good work!!!

I have never seen this much comments!!!!

someone said true design is something that attempt debates.

Newton Virus another step for the virtual solid geometry in space …without Terra… interesting invention

the best ever….

Warbz: that’s not been my experience, and I speak as someone who’s been using both Mac and PC at work and at home for nigh on fifteen years…

…could just be me though…

wiiicked!! i want it… we need to contact these guys..

this is not a virus. this is complete stupidity.

Totally awesome!! If they designed one for windows, i’d totally buy it.

Warbz: I see someone has been looking at videos on youtube.

Only problem whit that video is that the guy confuses MacOS 8/9 whit Mac OS X
and mixes it all up.

As for people saying that USB drives can not autorun, you are forgetting that there is a brand of USB drives out there, the U3 line, that have two partitions, one that is the actual drive, and one that emulates a CD drive and autoruns their program whenever you plug in the drive. This uses the same technology (actually is probably a U3 drive just re-written since that is entirely possible and simple to do).

I love how the Mac fanboys are refusing to call this a virus. Even if it weren’t a virus, this is just more proof that Macs are just as susceptible to malicious code affecting their normal routines, and as soon as Macs are popular enough, viruses for them will arrive en masse. It’s not a safer operating system. Virus writers just don’t care enough to code for the macintosh since the general coding aparatus is annoying (just another reason Macs are not as efficient as Windows or Linux machines yet)

Oh, and stop pretending Macs aren’t PCs. That’s exactly what they are. A defective operating system doesn’t change what it is.

Damn. I can just think that’s just the beginning.
Oh, Drew: Pleeeeeease… don’t let me think you’re that dumb…

Drew,

Its a shame you know so little yet profess that you do.

U3 drives (Cruzer) are written for PC’s, plugging this into a Mac doesnt install anything on the machine, if an application wishes to install anything on the Mac then an admin password has to be entered..pure and simple.

One more thing, your argument that there are no Mac virus’ because they arent popular enough is totally flawed. It is quite sad when blatant fanboys start posting on these threads.

I would best describe the video of this as a piece of art, look at how many posts and how much internet interest it has generated.

hello guys, very nice!

where to buy it?

Its only a program, how does it sense gravity?

I would just like to say to everyone who thinks it isn’t possible for a Mac to get a virus be logical here, no matter what you call it a Mac is a computer, it has a processor, it can be coded. Therefore it can have a virus if someone has the inclination to write one. It is possible to write a virus for a washing machine! You just alter the assembly code and you can make it do anything within the constraints of the machinery. If you can code it then you can write malicious code

Oh and mike just a thing about the Newton virus, it doesn’t install, it runs locally, you can auto run on a Mac just like on a pc and that’s just running an application off the drive, the Newton virus is just an app that’s stored in the machines ram, doesn’t need to be installed, doesn’t even touch the hard drive it just copies itself into ram.

Not a single system is completely 100% secure the idea that Mac’s are completely virus free and will never have a virus is foolish, it’s just sheer lunacy. Did you know that the first ever recorded computer virus in the wild was actually on a Mac?

Sooner or later there will be a destructive virus on the Mac, no ifs or buts it will happen I can promise you that. I can also promise you that all the Mac fan boys who believe that the Mac is perfect and will laugh and not believe a word I have said will end up losing everything on their Mac. I can only hope that someone sees sense and takes precautions

This is oh so cheeky, my wife shit a brick when i did it to her…

A Mac is not JUST a computer, I think we’re all aware of its super mechanic abilities…don’t be stupid Mr. Tetley.

Where can you get that virus?

If you want to play with tilting the computer, try the game Bubblegym! Very cool.

oh like that virus i want to have that

Greggory, i’m interested if you actually understand what a computer is by definition

i’m also interested in what super mechanic abilities a Mac has

if i were to dismantle a Mac and PC and lay the components side by side unless you were very well trained you could not tell them apart

you can install Windows on a Mac and OS10 on a PC

if you get down to the code they’re both written in the same language C++

a Mac might have a few differences in what has been coded but it is still a Personal Computer

Look.
1. It’s an ART program. Give it the poetic license to call it the Newton Virus, which whether it’s malware or a virus or program. It’s specifically for an artistic purpose. It’s a virus in the same sense that hamburgers aren’t actually ham….
2. It’s a pretty neat bit of code, and the same effect can be achieved on any operating system, but only on a computer with the SMS, Sudden Motion Sensor.
3. Saying the virus looks sexier on your OS is retarded, see 2.
4. The reason the mac appears to get/have fewer viruses and mac-specific malicious software is that mac represents a far smaller population of computer users, as backed up by the following article, CNET News:
“Although Apple sales typically represent less than 5 percent of the overall U.S. personal computer market, 8.2 percent of Americans who surf the Web at home do so using a Mac, according to the study. Nearly all the rest of those who go online–89.4 percent–do so using a Windows-based PC.”
It is not worth the time to code a bit of software to target 8.2% when you can, with the same amount of time, increase yields/infections of the virus by 10 times.
5. And just to add fire to the age-old flame war between PC’s and macs, can your mac right click?
Kthanks. x)

“5. And just to add fire to the age-old flame war between PC’s and macs, can your mac right click?
Kthanks. x)”

yes it can

Ok, this question hasn’t been answered anywhere in this post-off, WHERE can you download this “virus” ?

This is just a joke…. it’s ART man. It’s either not real, (meaning it’s a picture) or it’s an application using the motion sensor in the mac. Amazing piece of code though.

You want something to make a Mac lover freak out? Just walk up to his computer and covertly press Ctrl+Option+Command(Apple Key)+8 to instantly invert all colors. Press the same combo again to revert to normal - but not before having some fun. ^^

wtf? very flexible man

Fake!
Or mac have a gyroscope or motion sensor like new gen videogames?

vreau si esu virusu asta

a cute concept, but it also shows some video trickery going on during the filming. First of all you can’t auto copy and run a program from a USB flash disk. OSx doesn’t allow for that… but even if you did get their program in the Mac you’d still have to know the password, so it’s a fake video. a virus by default has to replicate itself and go from machine to machine without user intervention and that’s impossible on a Mac… that just can’t happen because of launchd.

but again, it’s a cute way to show off the accelerometer an all-newer Mac laptops and iphones.

very flexible

Totally a work of art. I don’t think autorun scripts will work for USB port devices on a Mac. I think they had the computer set up with a color key gradient, recorded the color key video, then generated a script to make the animation based on the position of the color key, keystoning the image where necessary. “Interaction” is recorded through blips on the color key gradient program. The last thing that would need to be done, if there are light-reflecting objects, is to map a reflection on those objects.

It’s a Hollywood way of seamlessly superimposing a video within a video.

i want to have this!
where can i buy it?
greetz, N.

can someone tell us where to dl it or buy it!

I don’t get it. This can’t possibly be a real virus. It can’t possibly be a real application even. What in the computer could tell this so-called “virus” that the computer has been rotated, or even moved? There is no motion sensor in a mac (at least not that I know of). Furthermore,

how is it a “virus” if it doesn’t actually hurt the computer, or duplicate itself?

Whre can you get it?

I’m not going to repeat Tetley’s and Mitch’s comments, which both sum up the correct statement that the only reason macs don’t have virii is the fact there is so few of them. And if I wanted to join in a PC vs. Mac flame war, I’d point out how inefficiently Macs use the hardware they run on (except for Vista prior to the service pack, they’re the worst system for hardware efficiency… I’m writing this from slackware linux btw ;] so I’m stating from an unbiased point of view).

Anyway, nobody so far has pointed out that this isn’t actually a virus, even if it did autorun from the pendrive, which could happen, as it doesn’t install so wouldn’t need a password (which could be circumvented anyway by any well-coded virus, it’s called stealth/invisible installation; macs are NOT immune to this), it just runs from the RAM. A virus replicates itself to survive (sending itself via email, copying to removable media/redundant folders/etc), which this claims not to, making this a [prank] malware application, if it’s genuine.

Still, giving the creators artistic license to call it a virus… This is genius use of motion detector hardware, I like it!

a good side of a virus.. love the concept !!

Thank god for the linux man. I switched over to linux from windows and started studying on macs to see if they were as secure as is said. They are not at all secure. With windows at least if you’re smart about the internet then most viruses will not get you but in a mac you can kill it if you so much as sat on a website too long and a cracker monitoring the server sees you.
Mac people and windows people switch to linux. You can get it for free and it’s more secure I promise.
BTW i suggest Sabayon linux since i work on the project.

haha funny how windowze uzerz are jealousy of mac cool users hahahaha, mac power hahahahaha funny screensaver, virus? nooo hahahahaahah, when will the virus come? when mac users gets great balls? hahahahhahah windows users stop with your jealousity!!!! remeber mac is power! peace

Take a look at some of these comments about this “virus”. If you know anything about computing whatsoever this should disuade you from joining the “mac crowd” Mac is power… pfft. Mac is fad. A “virus” is called such because it replictes itself within system files. What’s funny is, while there aren’t many mac viruses out there, that’s simply bacause most coders don’t give two shits about writting a mac virus. It’s simply a waste of time. What’s funny though is that you people want to put a virus on your system that fomr a group you know little about. Ever heard of rootkits? They’re extremely hard to find on non-unix systems. Easier on a mac running os x, than say, on windows but still more difficult than on a true unix system. Unless you’ve annalized this code from one end to the other, you don’t know what it contains and you don’t know what your’re allowing into someone’s system. If you want a real state of the art machine then build one. If you want a real OS then get Linux.