Newton Virus

Categories: Technology
  • Designed by London-based collective, Troika, the harmless Newton Virus causes Macs' desktop icons to fall as if affected by gravity. The virus can only be installed manually using a special USB key and will not infect any of the computers' files or enter the user's email account. From February until May of 2008, an affected computer is on show as part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
  • Fast Facts:

    1. Designed in 2005
    2. Non-replicating
    3. Harmless to computer files
    4. Hits only once
    5. May strike at any time
  • Quotes:

    "In the beginning were harmless computer viruses. Viruses born out of the wit of early computer adopters, viruses whose sole purpose was to surprise and amuse. A non-destructive form of artificial life."—Troika

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