It might be the best way, but distributing your malware as executable - maybe bundled with some other app - is easy. Plenty of bad actors out there who can’t pu

It might be the best way, but distributing your malware as executable - maybe bundled with some other app - is easy. Plenty of bad actors out there who can’t pull the fancy tricks. Smartscreen may protect against cases where somebody has for example repackaged WinSCP and distributes it with malware.