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if you have a mac, get macscan. also, a free product called clamXav has a 'sentry' that checks everything that comes onto your computer through email or targets whatever folder you put downloads into. it's often finding pc viruses coming through email, though often the emails are pretty easily spotted as junk. so far with macscan i've only had slightly annoying cookies that have come from viewing websites that have ads on them, though once it was bound and determined that one of my raw image files from my camera was a 'snooper'