The Myth one was particularly infamous because it’d wipe your entire C or D drive if you installed to root, and because Bungie (doing the right thing) spent nearly a million because they found it literally a day or two after shipping final copies to stores and did a recall. I don’t think it actually had any significant field impact.

As far as especially prone, custom installers were popular in the 90s (not even sure the windows MSI framework was there yet for the classic examples) and games get installed in weird places.

Weird stuff gets overlooked in testing. Nobody ever tried installing it somewhere than Program Files is a reasonable guess, saying this as an expert in software quality. Totally plausible an entire org would have that blind spot.

...in the 90s. But anyone involved in old school PC gaming knows these examples and should be planning for them in test. This was a noob mistake at a business level, no lie.