No, no, not condems . . . . this article deals with the price of protecting your PC from attack and the extremes some are going to.
Criminals hijack consumers' PCs by the thousands every day and use them to do their dirty work. Armies of zombies, for example, are now regularly used to attack Web sites and extort their owners.
Because all computers on the Internet are connected, the Internet is only as safe as its weakest link. And right now, the weak link -- home computers -- is pretty weak.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6560512/
Cowperson