Booted from PC back to MAC?

Hi there, I am wondering......I did not purchase extended phone support yet from Apple, so I am trying to find out if anyone else has ever encountered this problem?
It didn't happen today. But a couple of months ago, I kept being booted out of PC side back to MAC side. When this happend, I also lost my bootcamp icon on the toolbar in PC also. It didn't happen today, and the bootcamp icon is there.
Anyone know what that was about?
Thanks

Hi.
Thanks.
I am hardly ever in PC, but yes, there was an issue. First that happened, then the norton anti virus stopped working, but i left it for months bc i know how many hours i spend on phone trying to correct issues with technology. This is a brand new system, not even a year old, so i wasn't expecting problems. I did sit today and have the virus protector re-installed with norton. I did ask if they thought this was the cause of these other problems (booting me out), and he said no. I did a quick system scan, i had one keytracker only. I then went to contact MICROSOFT, but i find out that there is a charge (large one too) to contact microsoft for tec support now. When did that become in effect? It wasn't a few months back!
I did have another odd thing happen only one time after this stuff was going on. I was on MAC, and a microsoft pop up window opened, telling me of a problem or something? (cant remem. exactly). I was suspicious and didn't touch the message. Never had it again, but there was something similiar on the news around that time. I was in mac though?
I think i will go back and do a full system scan on pc next.
Yet another question for you though....can virus's attack pc, if i am not using it, but on mac?

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