It's sneaky, it behaves badly and counter to the user's interests, and because it's a compiler, it propagates that bad behavior (though not in a self-reproducin

It's sneaky, it behaves badly and counter to the user's interests, and because it's a compiler, it propagates that bad behavior (though not in a self-reproducing viral fashion). It's fairly mild on the scale of malware—I'd rank it slightly less bad than adware, but roughly on par with AV software that deletes any tools it deems to be for piracy purposes.