Back when I was more involved with security research, and WinXP SP1 was new and shiny, I remember that there were several trojaned XP .isos floating around. Th

Back when I was more involved with security research, and WinXP SP1 was new and shiny, I remember that there were several trojaned XP .isos floating around. The fact that antipiracy and AV groups have an interest in getting you scared does not mean that there's no reason to be scared of running random binaries you found on the net. And most people do not feed directly off the warez/cracks hubs - they feed of whatever they can find. Which means a lot of opportunity for bad actors.