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Well it may real except that it's not technically a virus it's just an application, but I doubt apple would put sensors/gyroscopes in their laptops simply to let the computer itself know if it was upside down, what difference would it make to the computer if it were upside down, on it's side, etc, which makes me think it was a ruse, simply a program to dump the icons, menu bars etc and then the person demonstrating learned which way the icons fell and turned the computer accordingly. It's not a virus because as it says it doesn't delete any files, email itself to every/anyone in your address book, etc, and it wouldn't be able to because to be able to do something like that would require an administrators password, which is something you can't type in while the user is away getting his printouts from the lan printer. I understand why apple laptops have ambient light sensors so they can automatically increase/decrease the screen and keyboard illumination, say, after the lights come back on after a presentation, but I can't think of any reason why laptops would have gyroscopes in them to determine the orientation of the machine. I think it's a scam/joke, like if you ever saw the Sleepless Knights parodies on the iMac, googlesearch for the iBrator, they're pretty funny.

Thirdly, as they show you the video, they say 'step 1 simply wait for the person to leave their computer' and when the guy does so, he's got a few different windows open, taking up most of the screen, but then after they cut back away from the black screen with the narrative, the windows are gone and it's showing only a desktop with a bunch of icons. 4th: the other person sticks the usb drive into the port and they claim it would automatically copy the contents onto the hard drive. No way in hell that could happen, and you don't even see a copy window appear on the desktop. It was just someone sticking a usb dongle in the drive and then removing it a few seconds later. 5th: the fact that this movie was moderately 'well' produced and including several different angles with breaks into black screens explaining what was supposedly happening tells you something's up. If it really was affective the way they claimed, they'd show 1 movie with no breaks/angle changes demonstrating how it worked. It's a scam. Someone did it as a joke, maybe to take a poke at how few viruses there are (none) for mac os x.