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."

Comments

Re:Nobody said that

[Anonymous Coward]

You're a complete fucking idiot.

It *IS* their problem

[DrYak]

They *ARE* now concerned that malware could be slip-streamed into Warez ISOs.

Because this enables them to brag around that "users should download untrusted pirated Vistas ISO. Only buy buying Genuine(tm) Origianl(tm) Vista(c) boxes with lots-of-cash, you are sure to get something clean".
And therefor when Johnny - 10 years old - goes to his grandma's to help her clean and re-install her PC, she'll refuses to let him uses some CD-R with things handwritten on it, and that instead she'll sacrifice some of Johnny's future heritage buying a Vista box in retail, for fear of viruses.

Or that's what they hope. See the "Don't steal movies on the Interweb !" clip that most current DVD forces users to whatch through, as an indication of how much this new technique is going to be successful.