content: I like your thinking but a couple of things:  It's not on ThinkPads, which is what most businesses are buying in bulk. Many large businesses flash pre-built images to laptops, thereby wiping the bloatware. I work in a tiny business right now and still I do a fresh Windows install.  My second point doesn't mean much, there are bound to be businesses out there who don't touch anything before giving laptops out to users. However, the hit and miss nature of this style 'attack' would be an odd way to try and get blanket coverage of corporations. The NSA have shown us how to do it of course, putting the code in the hard drive itself...