Vista Designed to Make Malware Easy

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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Nobody sees the real problem

[suv4x4]

If you're legit, the chance of running a bad install are zero.

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?

[Fred_A]

TFA is a troll.

Yeah, the copy of Visto I just downloaded works fine ! This is FUD plain and simple!

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Relax, it's nothing to worry about.

[kimvette]

You really don't have anything to worry about, because the EULA forbids making ISO images of the consumer editions of Vista.

Right? :D