[X Newbies] Viruses on X

[Florin Alexander Neumann]

On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 11:43 Canada/Eastern, TheMacintoshLady 
wrote:

> Can OS X be infected by these .pif, .exe, or .scr files that are sent 
> by
> PC users?

No. Although, presumably, a Windows install running under Virtual PC 
could. Even with Outlook Express Mac under OS 9, e-mail viruses don't 
affect Mac users.

> As I said these are .pif, .scr, and .exe files which are PC programs.

.exe files are programmes; .pif and .scr aren't; not that it matters to 
Mac users, anyway.

> she updated and ran her virus checker

If an e-mail was sent from her computer without her knowing about it, 
the PC is still infected.

f