they will never effect your Mac unless you run Windows on your Mac.
The only ones that would be effected by interfacing with Windows would
be the Windows users.
All Virus protection software programs can only protect against the
already known virus.
They do not discover new virus on their own.
Dave
On Aug 31, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Vinnie wrote:
>
> On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:08 PM, John Leonard wrote:
>
> > I was giving a lecture using PowerPoint and on his inserting into
> the museum's Windows machine, the virus protection on that machine
> went ape-sh*t. Turns out that I'd been collecting a whole bunch of
> Windows-type viruses, malware, trojans and other junk from other
> people's Windows machines and then probably passing them on
> unwittingly to others.
>
> So am i understanding correctly that most of the viruses are windows
> based, and we can get them and collect them but they will never
> affect us unless we interface with windows?
>
> Vinnie
>
> + + + + +
>
> To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. ~
> Augustine
>
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