How to notice a virus on a mac? Snow leopard?

[longball11]

I am still unclear of whether there is a virus on a mac or not. But I have looked at porn on my 2007 2.2 ghz black macbook. In case you're wondering and look at it at your own risk, I've only visited one porn site, croc reviews. It plays the videos right on the website, it doesn't have thing downloading and going into the "downloads" section of the dock. Obviously, I regret looking at porn because it just makes me want to buy a new macbook just to be clean and won't be hijacked from personal stuff. But is there a way I can notice there is a virus? performance difference? Space being eaten up? How do I know Im okay?

My second question is when snow leopard comes out, and the need to install it, is it going to get rid of everything I have on leopard (music, office 2008, etc.)?
Thanks

 

[windywoo]

You probably haven't got a virus but you will be going to hell for looking at porn.

When Snow Leopard comes out it will give you the option to Archive and Install which means it will keep all your settings and documents. A clean install is better though, so when you get Snow Leopard backup all your things manually to a CD or DVD and choose Erase and Install.

 

[ZiggyPastorius]

I am still unclear of whether there is a virus on a mac or not. But I have looked at porn on my 2007 2.2 ghz black macbook. In case you're wondering and look at it at your own risk, I've only visited one porn site, croc reviews. It plays the videos right on the website, it doesn't have thing downloading and going into the "downloads" section of the dock. Obviously, I regret looking at porn because it just makes me want to buy a new macbook just to be clean and won't be hijacked from personal stuff. But is there a way I can notice there is a virus? performance difference? Space being eaten up? How do I know Im okay?

My second question is when snow leopard comes out, and the need to install it, is it going to get rid of everything I have on leopard (music, office 2008, etc.)?
Thanks

Viruses do not exist on Macs. That is not to say there is not malware, et cetera, but no viruses. I'd be willing to bet a very large majority of Mac-users look at porn on their devices. If you went to the site and watched a video, you're fine. If you went to a site that popped up and said "you need to installed the DivZ88 codec to play this video" and you did, you might have some malware. Just be cautious, don't download anything shady. You're fine.

 

[angelwatt]

You cannot get a virus nor an STD from simply looking at porn on the internet. Macs have no viruses. You could potentially get a trojan if you download a codec from a untrustworthy site. So just relax and be cautious when something ask for your user name and password.

 

[GimmeSlack12]

I cannot tell you what a Virus on a Mac looks like cause there are none.

When Snow Leopard comes out and you install it it will simply upgrade the System Software and not touch anything else. It is utterly painless.

 

[ae3265]

You cannot get a virus nor an STD from simply looking at porn on the internet. Macs have no viruses. You could potentially get a trojan if you download a codec from a untrustworthy site. So just relax and be cautious when something ask for your user name and password.

But you can get hairy palms!

 

[NathanCH]

You're WAY too concerned.

 

[u49aa2]

Very frank and honest OP, lol, the funniest post today

 

[MacDawg]

Obviously, I regret looking at porn because it just makes me want to buy a new macbook just to be clean and won't be hijacked from personal stuff.

I don't think that will be necessary

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[Jisuo]

Very frank and honest OP, lol, the funniest post today

Haha, sometimes I wonder if people are for real.