Lose/Lose a game too far?
04/11/09 11:42
A Mac OS X arcade-style, shoot’m-up alien game named Lose/Lose has been doing the rounds recently. One of the aims of the author is to supposedly raise questions about the role of these type of video games, whilst using the files on your disk as collateral: every time you kill an alien a random file on your disk is deleted.
At the moment the game can only be downloaded via the author’s website, if you are happy to ignore the big red warning!
KILLING ALIENS IN LOSE/LOSE WILL DELETE FILES ON YOUR HARD DRIVE PERMANANTLY
Although the player is given several warnings about what the game will do, and it may not have been created with malicious intent, the idea of deleting personal files and system files on someone’s Mac to make a point, clearly has an impact on the security and integrity of their system.
So the moral of the story is, if you don’t want to lose your files don’t run the game!
For more information see OSX.LoseGame on the Macintosh Malware page .
At the moment the game can only be downloaded via the author’s website, if you are happy to ignore the big red warning!
KILLING ALIENS IN LOSE/LOSE WILL DELETE FILES ON YOUR HARD DRIVE PERMANANTLY
Although the player is given several warnings about what the game will do, and it may not have been created with malicious intent, the idea of deleting personal files and system files on someone’s Mac to make a point, clearly has an impact on the security and integrity of their system.
So the moral of the story is, if you don’t want to lose your files don’t run the game!
For more information see OSX.LoseGame on the Macintosh Malware page .