Mac Game/Trojan Wipes a File for Each Alien Killed
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A new piece of software developed by Fine Arts student Zach Gage is making waves in the security community.
As part of his Master of Fine Arts thesis project, Zach Gage wrote a game for Macs that deletes files from your machine as you play. Dubbed Lose/Lose, the title sees the player take on the role of a space captain on a "seemingly endless quest to destroy attacking aliens." Each alien is represents a file on your computer. Killing the alien means destroying that file. You have one life and if an alien touches you, you explode and the application will delete itself.
Describing the program as "a videogame with real life consequences," Zach says he tried to explore what it means to kill in a videogame. On his website, the student says that while touching the aliens will lose you the game and killing them will get you points, the aliens don't actually fire at you. "This calls into question the player's mission, which is never explicitly stated, only hinted at through classic game mechanics," writes Gage. "Is the player supposed to be an aggressor? Or merely an observer, traversing through a dangerous land?"
However exploratory, experimental or just interesting it seems, users are warned several times before they download and before they play that Lose/Lose will result in the permanent deletion of files from your hard drive and CNet reports that Symantec, Sophos and Intego have flagged the application as malware, with each of them calling the "Trojan" OSX.Loosemaque, OSX/LoseGame-A and OSX/LoserGame, respectively.
What do you think, malware or just harmful game? Let us know in the comments below!
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iNDEx / 05.11.2009
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Not malware, the author states the game will delete files. Also was a school project - perhaps the anti virus sites were right to tag it as malware though. Someone could offer for download not at authors site and not give warning as to games outcome so people could get caught by this.
If I had a Mac I think I would give this game a miss ^^
If I had a Mac I might play it. If I were a Mac owner, I'd be desperate to have any kind of game that would run on my computer.
this dud should be banned from the gaming world
LoL. what "gaming world" are you talking about? Who would do the banning?
you seem confused.
Malware.. a lot of persons, would think that it can`t be possible to happen something like that: deleting files and if they would play that game , they would suffer. So like maxheaddrom said: this guy must be banned...
um... if you don't fire at the aliens, nothing gets deleted. If the player knows that files get deleted every time the players shoots an alien, that's his own doing, otherwise the game is totally harmless.
Stupid, nuff said.
This game is great. I ike you are in a real war and if you shut someone you lose something (that person life). I not very ok that this game is treated like a malware (becose you can't play this game if you want to), if befoe you start the game you are annouced what this game do this is very ok.
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I think this is an awesome idea it should be made available for windows also and wipe out system files..it would be like playing russion roulette with your pc...and you would never get bored with the game you be sitting there shitting your pants you might have to reformat it would be a great challenge
Someday, someone will tell us there is a game if you lose it you lose your life and if you kill the enemies your friends will dies..... thats really stupid,