If I can do it, anybody can.<p>It is hilariously easy to hide arbitrary code from antivirus. I can tell that you don&#x27;t actually <i>know</i> what you&#x27;re talking about, but suffice it to say that escaping some AV product is no mean feat in anyone&#x27;s book.<p>Who gives a fuck about people who can&#x27;t be bothered to learn about the tools they use? I have as much sympathy for inept windows users as I have for people on the side of the road that break down and don&#x27;t know how their own car works.<p>The curl download that &#x27;just works&#x27; has just been broken by a simple &#x27;mv arch1.zip arch2.zip&#x27; basically. It doesn&#x27;t take a hacker to come to the conclusion that maybe there&#x27;s a smarter way.<p>Most of the highly-advanced botnets that I&#x27;ve seen are capable of p2p communication or some such similar functionality.