$25,000 cash prize

That's what they call a tease ;)
Sadly, a press release from DVForge announces a $25,000 cash prize for developing, and I quote from the press release:
"DVForge, Inc. announces the Mac OS X Virus Prize 2005, where our company is openly challenging all of the computer coders of the world to go after the $25,000 cash prize that we are offering to the first person to successfully create and deploy an "in the wild" active virus for the Mac OS X operating system...... snip
.... 'Symantec Corporation has recently released information to the press suggesting that they believe that the Mac OS X platform is at substantial risk to a new virus infection, and that the principal reason that OS X presently has zero in-the-wild virii is simply the lack of interest by virus coders.'.... snip ......
Should an employee or independent contractor of Symantec corporation win the contest, we will double the prize to $50,000 to that person."

I share GeekNewsCentral's outrage!!! over this contest, and also agree with the idea of suing DVForge if one ever damages your OS X system.
MissM
UPDATE: The contest has been canceled!!!