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Originally Posted by JDK1962
A publisher's virus would be no different from any other malware, which most applications have evolved to anticipate and intercept. Also, applications typically run in a "sandbox" and have certain permissions. I'd actually be rather surprised if most media software could grab the administrator-level permissions needed to start mucking around in the OS (e.g. to stop future boots and require a password).
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That's fairly trivial, actually. Such sandboxing and privilige systems, especially under Windows, are barely a step above telling a toddler to "Please don't do that" and then wandering off to do other things while that toddler (the software) does whatever it pleases.