Does the boot.mebroot virus effect Mac OS?

I have just started using the Mac OS so im not too sure how lots of things work, I have used boot camp to install windows XP and my windows got infected by the boot.mebroot virus. so i was wondering if would this virus effect my Mac OS.
thanks alot

Ak6mA wrote:
I have just started using the Mac OS so im not too sure how lots of things work, I have used boot camp to install windows XP and my windows got infected by the boot.mebroot virus. so i was wondering if would this virus effect my Mac OS.
thanks alot
Welcome to Apple Discussions:
It should not affect the BSD side of the system, but you clearly need to be more careful. If it is truly a bootsector virus, it can hose your bootcamp partition.

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