Vista Designed to Make Malware Easy 311
SlinkySausage writes "Trojan horses masquerading as 'cracks for Vista' are starting to appear on pirate boards. More worrying though, Microsoft has confirmed that Vista's image-based install process is designed to allow third-party software to be slipstreamed into the installation DVD. Great for corporate deployment of Vista with software pre-installed, but also a huge benefit for malware writers, who can distribute Vista images with deeply-rooted malware."
Bad analogy time... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Vista _IS_ malware (Score:2, Funny)
Also, its pretty stinking easy to check the MD5 sum of a downloaded image, ain't it? Non-story.
Re:Vista _IS_ malware (Score:1, Funny)
What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Re:Bad analogy time... (Score:2, Funny)
Apples and Oranges
Your comparing a big corporate bank with a big corporate software firm, obviously stealing software doesn't hurt anyone.
Nobody sees the real problem (Score:5, Funny)
But Windows still allows you to run ANY program you download. And this affects legit users too. Why isn't anybody talking about this.
I think it's about time Microsoft forbids running programs on Windows, or malware will have an edge.
Re:So? (Score:2, Funny)
~nog_lorp
Re:So? (Score:5, Funny)
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Relax, it's nothing to worry about. (Score:5, Funny)
Right?
*Gets out chalk and marks High-water* (Score:3, Funny)
FUD!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So? (Score:2, Funny)
Malware is easy (Score:2, Funny)