Earn 43 cents every time you infect a Mac

http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/09/24/earn-43-cents-time-infect-mac-vb2009/

by iamelgringo • 17 years ago

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imok20• 17 years ago

Interesting... I have an almost morbid fascination with how this will pan out. I use and love a Mac, and I don't plan on switching to a different machine, but I'm curious as to how Cupertino will respond.

I'm betting this doesn't get much traction, and that Apple with individually prevent and manage infections through Software Update. I also doubt that the Macintosh market is big enough and easily infected enough to be significantly targeted by malware.

We'll see.

miracle2• 17 years ago

Virtual machines, anyone? :-)

windsurfer• 17 years ago

Does OSX work in a VM?

aliem• 17 years ago

It seems so, but following the policy you'll have to host your vm's over an OSX server edition.

pavel_lishin• 17 years ago

I imagine the type of person who would install a random "Mac Codec" on their machine isn't going to start up a VM with OS X running to test it out, first.

miracle2• 17 years ago

No, I was more thinking about you installing it yourself on your Vm, then reinstalling it on anohter etc... thus cheating the system ;)

dtf• 17 years ago

I'd love to know how this compares with the going rates for other architectures. I assume Macs are at a premium, but by how much?

Earn 43 cents every time you infect a Mac

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