Macs can let virus enter in a Windows network?

We have 5 Mac in a Windows network. The IT states that the Mac (which are connected to the internet too) can let enter viruses and trojan horses and infect the windows network.
Is it true?

I agree. Your mac is no more or less susceptable to or likely to be a carrier of a virus than the windows or *nix boxes on the same network. Your Mac has or should have the exact same potential to be infected or to spread in fection that the other machines do.
The only way this policy makes sense is if youre machine isnt being "managed" by IT. meaning youre not behind the same firewall and youre not adhearing to the same security policies (not to be confused with policy objects in a windows domain but rather the rules IT lays down on users and computers). If you arent adhearing to these policies i agree with them. If you are then they are just being lazy/cheap and refusing to learn a system thats foreign to them or hire a consultant to do it for them.

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m a listbox, and then change the value on the block diagram, but what I want is that on the subvi node itself he can enter the actual values, say 1, 10, 200. Does anyone know how to do this, creatively, since currently a control like this is not available.I need a control in Labview which allows a user to choose from specific values (which I specify), NOT 0, 1, 2 etc. [I KNOW I can let him enter 0, 1,2 from a listbox, and then change the value on the block diagram, but what I want is that on the subvi node itself he can enter the actual values, say 1, 10, 200. Does anyone know how to do this, creatively, since currently a con
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m a listbox, and then change the value on the block diagram, but what I want is that on the subvi node itself he can enter the actual values, say 1, 10, 200. Does anyone know how to do this, creatively, since currently a control like this is not available.> I need a control which allows a user to choose from specific values
> (which I specify), NOT 0, 1, 2 etc. [I KNOW I can let him enter 0, 1,2
> from a listbox, and then change the value on the block diagram, but
> what I want is that on the subvi node itself he can enter the actual
> values, say 1, 10, 200. Does anyone know how to do this, creatively,
> since currently a control like this is not available.
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whatever it is you want to index.
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