The Newton Virus Mac Surprise

In the good ol’ days, viruses weren’t all malicious. They didn’t steal data, wipe out hard drives or shutdown entire systems. They were harmless pranks. Well, those sunny days are here again (at least for Mac owners everywhere) in the shape of the Newton Virus by the Troika collective. From their website:

Spice up your colleagues’ day with our Newton Virus, the first virus to introduce gravity to your laptop, causing the desktop icons to fall down as if subject to the gravitational pull from the real world.

Newton Virus comes on a USB key for manual infection. Simply plug the key into a computer and the virus will automatically copy itself on the hard drive.

The virus will then hit at random, but only once. It will not replicate itself, mail itself to your friends or destroy any of your files, but instead provides you with moments of blissful surprise and magic.