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)?