Newton Virus Infects Macs With Gravity
March 6th, 2008
Normally I wouldn’t use words like cool and clever to describe a computer virus (a few *expletives* here and there would be more like it), but The Newton Virus definitely manages to pull these two words out of me. Instead of booting your precious files into oblivion, or sending your machine into a state of perpetual shock as most malicious codes do, Newton simply introduces the forces of gravity to your Mac computing experience. When transferred to a machine from its custom usb drive, the virus causes your desktop icons to crash to the bottom of the screen, and move freely in response to the earth’s gravitational pull. Peep the video demo.
The Newton Virus was create several years ago by London based design studio Troika to showcase ‘virtual gravity’, and not by some random group of computer hackers looking to exploit a weakness in Mac OS as most would think (then again…). Either way let’s just hope no ones gets any crazy ideas from this.
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March 6th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
That was awesome (and I don’t even say awesome). Those cocky Mac users had it coming j/p lol.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
whoa, hold fast man…I’m one of those cocky Mac users that you’re talking about!
Haha.