Scarier still, the same tech-novice PC owners who failedto fortifytheircomputersproperly, allowingthem to becomespamrelaysandzombieDDOSattackers, are now making the switch to Macs.
In several recent cases, hackers have infected hundreds of thousands of Web servers with software that performs "drive-by downloads" on any visitor's machine, installing password-stealing Trojans or turning the PC into a spam-spewing zombie.