"(Because) enough people do not regularly apply security patches to Windows and do not run anti-virus software, there is little immediate need for malware authors to turn to these techniques as a means of deeper compromise"...

Yeah, right. This was said barely a couple of years ago about Windows rootkits. There were people even arguing that they were just an urban legend, a "theoretical" threat not to be taken seriously. Then we've seen them getting more and more common; most of the latest incarnations of threats coming from the former Soviet Union cybercrime use them; some of them so complex they literally ridiculed most anti-malware applications that were supposed to spot them and remove them.

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