HT1338 what about the problems with the trojan virus is that a problem for my mac as well?

What about the problems with the Trojan virus will this be a problem also for me using Mac

What Trojan?
If you're referring to the DNS Changer Trojan, it's highly unlikely you're affected. The actual distribution of the trojan was stopped several years ago and the perpertrators jailed.
The FBI has been maintaining the servers used by the trojan for the last 5 years in order to give affected systems time to be purged. They will finally shut them down on Monday.
Ensure that your router and the Mac's network settings are set for the DNS addresses of your ISP, or if you're not sure what they should be, change them to Open DNS using the IP addresses;
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

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