Earn 43 cents every time you infect a Mac(sophos.com)

9 pointsby iamelgringovor 17 Jahren7 comments

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/

3 comments

imok20vor 17 Jahren

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.

dtfvor 17 Jahren

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?

miraclevor 17 Jahren

Virtual machines, anyone? :-)

pavel_lishinvor 17 Jahren

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.

miraclevor 17 Jahren

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

windsurfervor 17 Jahren

Does OSX work in a VM?

aliemvor 17 Jahren

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