Do I have a virus?  My windows PC friends cannot open attachments from my Mac.

I'm runing OSX 10.7.4 on an iMac  and a Macbbok pro -- both late 2009 vintage.  People cannot open my attachments.  When I send an email attachment to an email from from Mail 5.2(1278) people using PCs are able to open the emails, but unable to open attachments whether .pdf, .docx, or .doc.  I have confirmed that "Always send windows friendly attachmdents" is checked.  In addition, the pdfs could not be opened on an iPad (didn't try the Word docs).  Do I have a virus?  Whether a virus or not... PLEASE help me make it stop!!!

I don't think you have a virus.  Probably, somehow the windows recipient is not able to handle the way the attachment is sitting inside the mail message.
Try this: take the attachement, zip it (control-click, Archive) and send the resulting zip file. Once the recipient unzips the file they, hopefully, will be able to see a usable file.
charlie

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