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Originally Posted by 71T Targa View Post
Isn't asking about virus protection for the Mac kind of like asking about a body guard for Jack Bauer?
LOL.

There have been theoretical Quicktime, email and jpg exploits that could eventually be used to create zombie Macs, but Apple has done a good job of handling those potential threats in occasional OS updates.

Microsoft has made great progress with malware prevention since XP, as seen here:

http://tinyurl.com/cm3to9

Unfortunately, about 70% of businesses are still running XP. The net is that it appears there are about 100,000,000 Windows computers infected worldwide at this moment.
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