Can a trojan horse infect macs?

Question

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Answer 1

Not directly. A trojan horse virus that depends on someone opening an attachment in an email for instance, can obviously be spread via anyone through emails - regardless of the operating system. A trojan cannot actually launch itself on a Mac as they are all (so far) programs such as .exe files - .exe files just don't run on Macs.

Now if you have Windows installed on the Mac then yes you can get infected - but wait a minute... only the Windows part of the Mac of course.

Answer 2

Yes. Any computer with internet access can get a trojan virus, IF you are doing the wrong thing or opening the wrong link, etc.

Here was one case last year: http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/ne...

Answer 3

Yes. Mac can have a trojan horse. You can get Norton 2008 or 2009 for mac. It is software that will remove it. I use Norton for windows. You can get viruses but installing dmgs and going to websites. Your mac can have attack. Yesterday my dad's computer got attacked. We don't know it was.