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Is a "threat" to Windows OS a threat to Mac OS too?

ronks69

I have just downloaded the Sophos free Mac home edition, and did a scan of all drives.  Since there were more than 7,000,000 locations, it took some hours to execute.  The result is that I have 103 threats.  When I click on the threat in the Quaranteen Manager, it opens my web browser to bring me to the Sophos page realted to the particular threat.  However, scrolling down, I see in bold title:  Affected Operating Systems:  Windows.  Since I am using the Mac OS 10.5.8 it does not seem to be necessary to delete these "threats" since they can only threaten Windows operating systems.   Yesterday, i called a Mac specialists in my area and he said that none of these threats affect my OS.  It seems illogical and a great waste of time to hunt down and delete a threat that does not affect my computer.  Am I correct to ignore these threats?  

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Ron

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    Hi Christian

    thanks for the insight.  I am new to this, as must be clear by my post.  Yes, I do know about the one virus Mac FakeAV , but I appreciate your inclusion here.  Perhaps my saving grace is that I never use cross platform applications.  And I much apprectiate your suggestion that, although these viruses may not affect my Mac OS, I could potentially pass them to another computer that is using Windows.  Thanks again.

    Ron

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    Hi Christian

    thanks for the insight.  I am new to this, as must be clear by my post.  Yes, I do know about the one virus Mac FakeAV , but I appreciate your inclusion here.  Perhaps my saving grace is that I never use cross platform applications.  And I much apprectiate your suggestion that, although these viruses may not affect my Mac OS, I could potentially pass them to another computer that is using Windows.  Thanks again.

    Ron

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