>> Malware includes more than viruses.
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>> Yes, there are presently no viruses in the wild that can infect MacOS X.
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>> There are definitely malicious attacks the Mac is susceptible to, but they pretty uniformly require the user's co-operation to download, unpack, and install.
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>> iPad? I'm not aware of anything a *non-jailbroken* iPad is susceptible to.
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> But if a joe average user downloaded something that had malware, he would install it on his Mac albeit unknowingly?
That depends.
For example, if I download and open malware that requires Java to run, nothing happens, because Java is not installed on my Mac.
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