>> that anything that powerful, is crying out to be troygened <<
If the tool is once popular, somebody may try to add his backdoor, yes. Right now it seems it's a admin tool for a minority of careful people.
In fact there's already some malware that is trying to crash Icesword.
Additionally, you can(should?) use one of the other tools with a similar purpose to watch Iceword. This is a simple Exe, no installation required. It will start a TSR process that's running in the background, until you reboot the machine. So you have pretty good control over it's actions (compared to apps that are turning the whole system upsidedown).
As Rook described, in some cases rootkits can be real nasty, replacing parts of the os and do weird things. Did you ever try to create a new textfile on a writeprotected floppydisk and there was no error message? It makes you wonder what's up, but the average user has no tools to monitor the system.
If the tool is once popular, somebody may try to add his backdoor, yes. Right now it seems it's a admin tool for a minority of careful people.
In fact there's already some malware that is trying to crash Icesword.
Additionally, you can(should?) use one of the other tools with a similar purpose to watch Iceword. This is a simple Exe, no installation required. It will start a TSR process that's running in the background, until you reboot the machine. So you have pretty good control over it's actions (compared to apps that are turning the whole system upsidedown).
As Rook described, in some cases rootkits can be real nasty, replacing parts of the os and do weird things. Did you ever try to create a new textfile on a writeprotected floppydisk and there was no error message? It makes you wonder what's up, but the average user has no tools to monitor the system.