Transfering a Virus

[EvilDoc]

Well i feel kind of bad about this but it didnt cause any harm. I burned a Dvd full of stuff for a friend, and unwittingly gave him a few infected files. Now i dont have any sort of antivirus software on my iMac because i dont need it. But when things like this happen i wish i had one. My question is has this happened to any of you and do you have any suggestions? I refuse to by Norton ( 50 bucks for the off chance this happens again? ).

 

[yankeefan24]

Wait, your iMac had infected files? Or did you have non working windows virus' on your computer that you transfered?

 

[iGary]

I blew up a client's server by passing on a virus...they were not happy.

I have virus software just for my stupid PC clients.

 

[yellow]

I refuse to by Norton ( 50 bucks for the off chance this happens again? ).

http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/

Free virus checker for OS X.

 

[janey]

Wait, your iMac had infected files? Or did you have non working windows virus' on your computer that you transfered?

usually it's an infected file that doesn't do anything on the mac but goes on to infect windows.

 

[EvilDoc]

No it wasnt doing anything it was an infected zip file. So it cause me now harm. Thanks for the link

 

[SC68Cal]

I assume that these files were downloaded from a P2P client. Which would explain quite a bit.

My network policy is that all computers must have anti-virus software so that something like this would never happen.