>Waiting for victims to run your malware is not an active process. Except that's not what we are talking about. The old piece of software here is known to not

>Waiting for victims to run your malware is not an active process. Except that's not what we are talking about. The old piece of software here is known to not be malware. >I don't know why anybody would want to gamble with something like this. Everything you do in life is a gamble. Everything is a risk. And the risk of opening an external file in a common format that just happens to have a carefully crafted exploit for extremely uncommon, outdated software that you happen to use to open it is so, so, low, that the risk of the computer exploding in your face on power-up becomes significant compared to that. Yet people aren't deterred from booting up their machines just because there was this laptop one time that did explode.