My desktop computer is an Apple iMac running OS 9.2 - I know, ancient, but I can't comfortably upgrade to OSX (takes too much memory and hard drive space). I also can't afford a new Mac, so instead, I bought a Toshiba Satellite laptop with Windows XP. I needed at least one PC anyway (for biz reasons), so that's ok.
I know NO ONE makes viruses anymore that infect old Macs, because probably less than 1% of the Mac users out there (already a small number compared to PC users) are running the "ancient" 9.2 OS. My question is: if I accidentally downloaded a file on my Mac with a virus or worm designed to attack Windows PCs, even though it can't infect my Mac, could my Mac pass it on to my PC?
At times I email myself files from my Mac to PC. It doesn't seem like my Mac could send an infected file, because to be "contagious", you have to first become "sick". Since my Mac is "immune" to the viruses and can't even recognize their code, it couldn't be "contagious" in the 1st place, could it?
2006-07-11
10:00:16
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scary shari
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