I know Macs cannot get viruses in general but if Microsoft Office for Mac is bought can viruses be attained through it?
MacBook Pro
There are no known OS X viruses...that answer your question?
There are no known OS X viruses...that answer your question?
Kind of, I'm just wondering if Microsoft Office itself can put viruses on your mac?
no
So I wouldn't need to install anti-virus software on my mac if I buy Office for Mac?
Microsoft Office (acquired from a legitimate source) does not contain any viruses.
again, no. I have MS Office '11 for mac and have used it for over a year with no anti virus and no issues as a result.
No, but if you are in an office environment and interact with Windows machines, you could act as a "virus carrier" and infect others.
Won't harm you though.
If at home, then nevermind.
Windows viruses cannot infect OSX.
you could act as a "virus carrier" and infect others.
Which is exactly what I said. They can however transfer viruses to others through email, file sharing, etc.
That's why in a corporate environment Macs and Linux boxes get Antivirus so Windows machines are safer.
In Ye Olde Days, Office:Mac used to come with a VisualBasic runtime so it could run macros. At the time, the APPLICATION was vulnerable to a very small subset of macro viruses written specifically for the platform. Since Office:Mac 2008, it no longer has macro coding capabilities and no VisualBasic. So, no more macro viruses.
And Ye Olde versions of Office don't run in modern leonistic Macs.
According to Microsoft, it is possible for Macs running the current version of Word to be affected by so-called macro viruses:
On the contrary... my macbook pro caught a trojan last night...
On the contrary... my macbook pro caught a trojan last night...
What trojan is that, and how do you know you were affected by it?
Linc Davis wrote:
According to Microsoft, it is possible for Macs running the current version of Word to be affected by so-called macro viruses:
This is why, when I open Word documents with macros, Mac Word asks me if I want to run the macros. That warning is due to the Word macro virus risk.
Macs can be damaged by Windows viruses under certain conditions. For example, if you run Windows in a virtual machine, and you have enabled a folder sharing feature so that a Mac folder can be modified by both Mac and Windows, it is possible for a Windows virus that erases files to then erase files on the shared Mac folder. And of course if you give too wide access to Windows (like Mac library and system files) then it is theoretically possible for a virus in a Windows virtual machine to destabilize a Mac system.
I haven't used Boot Camp but I imagine that if you share a volume between OS X and Boot Camp a similar risk may exist.
There are no known OS X viruses...that answer your question?
What is that based on, google? The entire fact of what a virus is that it exists on every system. A virus is an application that executes with malicious intent. Anyone can write one, but there are very few because no one really cares about Mac. Although xCode is attracting possibilities.
I haven't programmed in VBA for Mac, but after finding ways of opening and creating files in vba, it is possible then it should be possible to create a virus. I would think you could save the file to the machine with vba. I saw how people are creating files via VBA in word/excel. Once the file exists all it takes is to execute apple script in combination with a compiled file. Since you can access web services, or so I read, they can either embed the file inside the macro or download via a url and somehow sign the application to keep apple from notfiying you. The melissa virus container 6 files and the each file had the source code for each. Every file searched for the other 5 and if one of them found the file was missing it would re-create itself. I was lucky enough to get the code back in 98. Spyware operates the same way, but looking like something you want and installing itself. I would say that even though OSX has a tighter belt, it's not free of malicious code.
I don't feel like spending time on it, but it looks entirely possible. See this link https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2700142
So I would say all Apple owners ( I have a MacBook which I love more than my 2 windows laptops and never use unless it's for inkscape ) are just plain lucky, but as xCode gets bigger and bigger you too will be paying McAfee's bond payment. But, saying it's virus free is an incorrect statement.
Can MacBook Pro's get viruses from Microsoft Office?
