Apple virus contest canned
A COMPANY which offered $25,000 for anyone who could infect two PowerMac G5s connected to the net with a virus has cancelled the competition.
DVForge started the competition after anti-virus outfit Symantec claimed that attacks on the Mac are on the rise. The company was miffed that Symantec was out there spreading FUD against Apple when there had been very few attacks on the pretty boxes.
According to DVForge's chief executive officer Jack Campbell, he had been contacted by a large number of Mac users and Mac software professionals "who shared their thinking” with him about the contest.
According to MacCentral, it seems that although Campbell might have thought that the chance of a Mac virus was zero, now it turns out that it is only ‘remarkably close to zero’.
Campbell was also told there may be some legal things stemming from such a contest. Campbell told Associated Press that he still felt distaste for what some companies (read Symantec) did to take advantage of virus fears among the Mac community.
