Mac OS X Virus Prize 2005: $25,000

By C.K. Sample, III

Hot on the heals of Symantec's warning about OS X
hackers, MacDailyNews is reporting that DVForge, Inc. is offering a $25,000 prize "to the first person to successfully create and deploy an 'in the wild' active virus for the Mac OS X operating system." Now this is good if you are a coder who can do this (it really shouldn't be impossible), but bad news for everyone else who gets infected by this "in the wild" virus. 

A note to all the people who are going to attempt to win this $25,000: Please, make the virus as non-harmful as possible.  A pop-up that proclaims, "You have been infected! Click here to inform DVForge that I just won their
$25K challenge and to remove this virus from your computer. Sorry for the inconvenience.  Thanks!" and does what it says would be really groovy.

A question for the lawyers out there: Is participating in this contest fundamentally illegal? Will you represent me if I win?

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a virus to write...

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