Woah. Look how insecure Macs are. ;-/

It’s sad that Symantec turned this into a marketing tool. They should emphasize that the developer makes it abundantly clear what is going to happen if you play the game. But their goal is to scare you. I hope other AV companies bash them for deeming this a trojan. A trojan does things that aren’t disclosed. It’s a social experiment if you ask me.

The firm warned that third parties could alter the code to cause even more havoc than the game’s creator intended.

And think about this- are there people out there that are actually okay with files being deleted, but not okay with “more havoc”? “I knew that it would delete my files, but I didn’t know it was going to take a picture of me playing the game and upload it to my Facebook page!!”
Thanks Symantec. I’m glad you have our backs.

At least it warns you not to play it.

Sounds like a wicked graduate internet psychology research study. Seriously. Has anyone checked out the possibility? If not, it might be an interesting exercise.

Investigate if a losing play doesn’t send a “gotcha” report back to the developer. Scoundrel!

This is very troubling - that a Symantec engineer would write such a program and release it. Symantec’s motives seem quite clear: not enough threats on the Mac? Let’s create some! Better get some antivirus software if this sort of thing could be out there! You never know what your kids might be downloading.

Dispicable, and Symantec should be sued or at least fined for such an act.

Ummm.. What I get from the text is that Symantec only _found_ it. They didn’t write it.

Yeah - I read it wrong. Thanks for the correction.

So… suppose a kid downloads and plays this and deletes his parents very important document?  Children can’t be held legally responsible, so I suspect that would leave the developer holding the bag.