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Vista Designed to Make Malware Easy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-wasn't-that-hard-in-xp-either dept.

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."

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  1. Ignoring the big picture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ok, so malware can be slipstreamed into Vista. So what makes that different than having trojans, viruses, etc. inserted into Linux's source code and redistributed (which has actually happened)?

    Slipstreaming isn't anything new. So it seems once again Slashdork comes up with some kind of tenuous nitpick which is infeasible in the real world.

  2. Re:Sympathy? by cyber-vandal · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The only Slashdot groupthink I ever come across is the Microsoft shill section. Either that or Microsoft have some software monitoring slashdot.org that posts a similar message to yours any time anything remotely critical gets said about Microsoft.