do you know what virus it is?
Generally speaking, Windows viruses are not transferable to an Apple Macintosh computer running OSX - where the infection would actually do any harm. Remember, most viruses are written to exploit certain areas of an operating system or application. If you are running Macintosh OSX, the Windows executable virus does not understand where to infect because the OSX (Unix based) file system has a different "filing" method.
I am not aware of any viruses that infiltrated MP3 files... but it has been a while, so I *could* be off base. Presuming this MP3 non-infection continues to be the case, moving your MP3 collection over to the OSX environment should not be a problem. The MP3 player will be different, the OSX operating system environment will be different... That said, if there is an infection, your Mac (running OSX) won't be impacted, but if you share that stuff with other Windows users, the infection could pass through your machine - and infect the other Windows machines.
OK... Now, with all that said, if you choose to boot your Macintosh computer using Windows and transfer your files from the infected Windows machine, you are merely moving from one Windows environment to another - so the Windows operating system on the Mac will become infected and probably behave the same way your original Windows machine does with the infection.
Windows users should always use a computer condom... firewall on, antivirus application active and updated weekly... anti-spyware apps active and all the other stuff... that your Mac running an updated and current OSX does not really need.
This is my first post, so be gentle......
I just purchased a macbook after using/owning a PC for quite some time now. I had to purchase a macbook, because I got a virus on my PC that was impossible to remove. My PC is still infected (after 3 years), yet it has all of my mp3s on it. I want to transfer my mp3's via usb to my Macbook.
Since my pc is clearly infected (to the point where it will be "trashed") will transferring files to my Mac be a bad idea? Of course I don't have virus protection on my macbook and the virus protection on my pc doesn't work (due to the virus).
if you could help me it would be great, thanks

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