Nothing like windows.
A hacked APPLICATION binary was downloaded from a commercial source.
And chosen to be installed.
How is that anything like the thousands of windows viruses actively attacking windows users via a variety of methods, some of which you can't possibly predict due to our unfamiliarity with core windows internals (and I mean that about everyone unless you are actively working on Windows source, or spending a majority of your time disassembling it in a debugger)?