It was essentially funny that the backdoor used IE to launch a game (wtf, why not launch the exe directly?), and this was the cause for vulnerability; the backdoor was so badly coded that you could instruct it to launch ANY program (probably bypassing non-admin user rights and UAC too) from ANY browser you used; Firefox, Chrome and Opera were not safe, and this again proves that choosing to "uninstall" IE from WinXP/Vista/7 just removes the shortcut. Also, if I understood correctly, this was possible even if you had disabled scripting, used NoScript, etc.
If you downloaded a cracked version from the haven of them buccaneers (which the local ISP supposedly "blocked" due to district court issuing a ban that's against EU regulations, well all torrent search engines find those torrents too and since they have used magnet links instead of torrents since the beginning of this year...), you were not bothered by the demand for constant net connection, nor by this sloppily coded backdoor. Another proof that warez is more customer-friendly, the way it shoud be... wait, what?
