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There are no active viruses infecting Mac OS X. What are commonly called Computer Viruses are in reality viruses that infect the Windows operating system. Mac users, like any other computer user, can be tricked into downloading and installing malware on their Mac but such problems are limited to that user and do not affect other Mac users.

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