They have to infect themselves with a whole bunch of manual interactions with the malware before it can infect their computers? That sounds like this will severely limit the amount of damage that this malware can do.
My question is: why? Why rely on the end user to perform all of this manual interaction when we have been told repeatedly that hooking up a Windows machine to the Internet will cause it to be automatically infected within seconds? That sounds like a far superior method of infection. And we've also been told that it is really easy to infect Windows machines because of all the security holes in it.
So why release something that requires so much end user interaction when releasing something that will automatically infect every Windows computer within minutes is such an easy thing to do?
Can someone please explain this to me?
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