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Cute, addictive, amusing javascript game


From: Kevin McAleavey <kevinmca () nsclean com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:15:23 -0400

 Thought the "usual suspects" here might be interested in this ... for once, I have an opportunity to put the FUN back 
in FUNsec. Heh.

 The company I work for is celebrating ten years in business this month, and in appreciation to our dedicated group of 
employees, malware analysts, volunteers and avid customers - I'd slightly modified an antique javascript game to fairly 
recent HTML specs and Nancy, our CEO, did some spiffy artwork to put this together. It's one of our little "inside 
joke" toys, shared internally, which has now been made public overnight for the amusement of all who need a chuckle 
since it's just THAT addictive and tongue in cheek. "Makes a great diversion, fun for kids of all ages, AS SEEN ON THE 
INTERNETS!"

 It's called "Malware Analyst" (my suggestion to call it "Kevin says find your OWN damned trojans" was overruled) and 
is intended to draw attention to our BOClean antimalware product. That's why it went "public." The game itself though 
is "clean" and contains no advertising, just a link at the bottom for anyone interested to click at. Or not.

 The objective is to clear a matrix of randomly placed malware types by clicking on adjacent similar types of malware 
to clear the board. The larger the number of variants you kill off in a SINGLE "detect," the more points you earn 
stopping "zero hour" on the next "collection" should you choose to play again.

Subsequent games will amplify your skills and help you have the opportunity to earn even better odds and a higher score 
owing to the weird way that javascript "randomizes." HIGHLY addictive and a great way to get through a Friday in a cube 
farm. If anyone's interested, it's on our nsclean.com site as well as the privsoft.com "corporate" site in case of 
/.'age ... URL's are below, feel free to invite your friends.     =)

http://www.nsclean.com/game/analyst.html (NSClean.com site)

and/or

http://www.privsoft.com/game/analyst.html (Privacy Software Corp site)


Enjoy! And SOMEBODY make Solly step away from the machine at least once every four hours. Unca Brian is permitted to 
play as well, but he MUST choose "Spanish" or "French" in order to continue. (grin)
----------------------------------------------------
 Kevin McAleavey at your service
 Privacy Software Corporation
 http://www.nsclean.com
 kevinmca () nsclean com

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