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20-Apr-2007, 03:19 PM #1
Can Macs get viruses or spyware
This is only my 6th month using a Mac at my office. The company I work for has only four computer connected to our network, but there is a particular computer (my bosses) that is having the worst of issues.

Here are the issues we have been faced with over the last few months:

1) Emails say they are from one person in our Mail box, but once it is open says it is from someone else (my bosses' computer only does this)

2) Unexpected crashes in MS Word - when computer is restarted and Word automatically opens, it crashes once again.

3) SPODing (Spinning Pie Of Death) in all applications when all or most computers are in use

4) Inability to send emails (comes and goes) or we won't receive them for days or never.

Has anyone else dealt with this? When I worked with a PC I was able to download several PC friendly anti-spyware applications, but what do you do with Macs?

Yes we are working on a network and our IT person is clueless as to why this is occurring (think we need a new one! Hope you all are doing well!)
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21-Apr-2007, 07:40 PM #2
Please don't multi-post.
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24-Apr-2007, 05:24 PM #3
I didn't mean to - I swear! I tried to delete one of them, but couldn't find a delete button - won't happen again!
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