Not sure who needs to know this, but if you download and install the Windows version of Rufus, the free software for writing ISO images to USB/CD-ROM, your PC will end up with about 100 trojans.
Edit: The site I downloaded from was rufus[.]ie which is apparently the official site. During installation, the software threw up a couple of rather verbose messages saying it needed to download additional components.
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The drama itself confirms my ~~bias~~ claim that we never should have normalized and even encouraged such patterns of downloading additional components at install- or run-time.
Kids today... there was a good reason we didn't do it like that before!
(there's a joke in there about not having the ubiquitous internet before)
