Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 18th Apr 2009 09:27 UTC
Remember the Mac trojan that we reported about earlier this year? A trojan was found piggybacking on the back of copies of iWork and Photoshop CS4 found on warez sites and networks, and it would install itself after the user had entered his or her administrator password during the software's installation. This trojan didn't seem like much of a threat back then, but as it turns out, it's now in use in the first Macintosh botnet.
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Thom Holwerda wrote:
-"This isn't about UAC, this is about Windows Defender. Defender does its thing with or without UAC, with or without administrative privileges."
Granted, I've have used Vista ever so slightly and during that time I did not install any software but I'd guess that when you install commercial software like a game or an application Windows Defender will warn you that this software can do harm to your system (due to copy protection/DRM code), and users will click past this warning in order to install said game/application. So how hard would it be for a cracked version to just include a rootkit in the crack which will then piggyback on the game/app installation?