there's no way to say for sure without knowing more details on a specific OS. maybe it would need that stuff, maybe not; maybe some of them but not all. worth

there's no way to say for sure without knowing more details on a specific OS. maybe it would need that stuff, maybe not; maybe some of them but not all. worth noting, though, is that there are plenty of malicious pieces of software whose goals have nothing to do with obtaining data on an individual computer.