The Greatest Computer Virus Hoax Newton Virus Demonstration

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Do Mac computers get viruses? Many people tend to question whether Mac malware actually exists, but the Newton Virus made sure to remind everyone that it certainly did. In early 2008, word was going around on YouTube about a computer program that you could put on Mac OS X machines to make them cause chaos among users. • Troika’s Newton Virus became quite a big internet story, hitting the featured page on YouTube just a week within being uploaded and making headlines across several different news outlets. And there is probably one question that is just burning in your head right now: How on earth does it work? It doesn't even look real!...but yet it is, and for a lot of people who may not have known a lot about computers, it was quite scary. What is the story of the Newton Virus, a brief Macintosh phenomenon that has since seemed to be lost to history? • Troika is the name of a contemporary art group formed in 2003. They have quite a diverse catalogue located in several different exhibits, ranging from New York City to Hong Kong. Troika has a very interesting philosophy, which is to further understand the ways the digital world directly influences the physical one, and how we as people use that to establish relationships with each other. In other words, technology has a huge role in how we see and control our real-life surroundings and how we interact with both ourselves and people face-to-face. 2003 was a year in the middle of a huge digital boom, so Troika found that it was the perfect time to start investigating the how and why this was the case. So naturally, they created and distributed a computer program known as the Newton Virus, which launched in 2005. But there’s something important to note here, and something that would probably only make sense if you knew about Troika’s mission. This program is completely harmless. In fact, it wasn’t even a computer virus, at all. It was a social experiment, and quite a brilliant one at that. The computer program’s purpose was to play as a practical joke on control freaks and people who liked things very organized. This was a target audience that would absolutely be influenced by things in the digital world. If they find things within their digital environment to be just all over the place, they are going to have quite a stressful time. I like to be a very digitally organized person myself, and I can end up very overwhelmed if I let things get a little too crazy. The program was a tool for further studying human behavior when interacting with computers, and something like this would be an organizer’s worst nightmare. The program was also meant to “introduce the concept of gravity” to your desktop, hence where the name “Newton” comes from, and it pays homage to the early days of computer viruses, when they just mostly served as annoyances rather than actually causing direct harm to files or mass spreading itself. But how exactly does the Newton Virus work? • Well, the way Troika programmed this piece of software is quite ingenuous, and what makes it work so well is the fact that it is just so harmlessly deceptive. The user never suspects anything. There are some things to keep in mind: the program seems to only work natively on OS X Tiger and Leopard. If you would like to use it on any other versions of MacOS beyond that point, you may either be out of luck or have to make quite a bit of program and system configurations. It is also perfectly safe to use. The program will only work properly if it is run from a USB drive. Once the program is activated, the USB drive will digitally eject itself, and the laptop will appear completely untouched. The program is not entirely time sensitive. It will run about 30 seconds after any activity on the computer is initiated. The start time is spontaneous, but it is roughly around the 30 second mark. It will not start the countdown until the user resumes their work. Then, the program takes a screenshot of the menu bar and all of the icons on your desktop. The program then uses these images, along with an image of your wallpaper, to create a façade of your desktop, minus the dock at the bottom. The program uses software called Box2D to make the icons simulate real-life physics, and tada! You now have the Newton Virus. • Website: http://www.nationsquid.com/ • Patreon: / nationsquid • Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/squids-s... • Discord: / discord • Google +: just kidding. • Lost Time by Kevin MacLeod • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song... • License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license • Wholesome by Kevin MacLeod • Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song... • License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license • A special thanks to these patrons: • Swingadee • Winolotonolo • Tommy Sharp • Sl0rg • Hannah Marsh • Memo • ENJOY THE PROGRAM.

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