I just bought a new mac book, and I want to put all of my music on it, but my old PC has a virus that is deleting my hard drive. I don’t want this to carry over to my mac. If I put some of the music from that computer onto my mac will the virus not effect it?
Yes, but it won’t affect your Mac unless you have something like Wine installed on it. The reason for this is you have an entirely different operating system on there, and a Windows virus just doesn’t have the system calls it needs to work. I’d still suggest getting rid of the virus though, since why would you want to transfer that? On the Mac side of things, ClamXAV is free and can delete the virus (use the preferences menu to delete it before starting the scan).
PC viruses cannot affect a Mac.
There are not many viruses made to attack the Macs – so much so that you can not find a virus program for them. The MacBook also comes with a built in firewall (certify that yours is on) and you can also put your MacBook on stealth mode for more protection (go to the apple store website for more info about it).
There are no MacOs X viruses currently released. You may transfer over some Windows viruses but they will not harm your Mac unless you also partition your hard drive, use Bootcamp & put Windows on your Mac. So you are safe.