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The Newton Virus: Hitting a Mac near you?
The Newton virus is a perfectly inoffensive little Mac application that will never replicate itself, mail itself to your contact list or delete any of your files. According to its designer, it was made to revive the golden era of “fun” viruses, which were created to make pranks upon your friends. The little critter comes on a USB key that looks like a cross between an evil Apple logo and a carnivore PacMan. If you want to infect someone with it, all you need to do it to plug the device on a Mac system for a few seconds and remove it. The Virus will then execute itself at a completely random time, and it will do so only once. Check out the following video to see it in all its destructive glory.
Mar 5, 2008 8:01 AM
Re: The Newton Virus: Hitting a Mac near you?
I'm calling BS
How in the world does the mac computer know its spatial orientation, which would be necessary for the icons to move with the laptop?
How in the world does the mac computer know its spatial orientation, which would be necessary for the icons to move with the laptop?
By: savantegarde
Re: The Newton Virus: Hitting a Mac near you?
troika.uk.com appears to be a web site for an "art and design studio", so someones trying to pull our leg. Its still a cool video though.
By: deadned
Re: The Newton Virus: Hitting a Mac near you?
IBM laptops have been using internal Gyroscopes for a few years now to detect excessive movement and park your harddrive to prevent damage.
On my work laptop (Which is coming on 4 years old), you can open up the drive protection software and it shows a 3D rendering that shows the laptops orientation in space and moves accordingly when you move the laptop.
I don't see any reason why a mac couldn't/wouldn't have the same feature.
On my work laptop (Which is coming on 4 years old), you can open up the drive protection software and it shows a 3D rendering that shows the laptops orientation in space and moves accordingly when you move the laptop.
I don't see any reason why a mac couldn't/wouldn't have the same feature.
By: Gotterdammerung
Re: The Newton Virus: Hitting a Mac near you?
all the mac notebooks have gravity sensors that really happens they use it in some of their screen savers i have one with just a million tiny balls that move according to which way you tilt the computer. another reason why mac is awesome
By: babloo
Re: The Newton Virus: Hitting a Mac near you?
From mac.blorge.com:
"It makes use of the MacBook’s tilt sensor to cause the icons and menu bar to slide across the screen (if you tilt the MacBook)."
Still BS, or no? I know nothing about this feature, or about Macs for that matter.
"It makes use of the MacBook’s tilt sensor to cause the icons and menu bar to slide across the screen (if you tilt the MacBook)."
Still BS, or no? I know nothing about this feature, or about Macs for that matter.
By: ice-9


