Mac mail has virus

crashed a fed computer with mac mail over 120 copies also looped as i cc'd myself. now again . even emails from mac.this am started. /
new computer in getting noew optical drive at techroom. went to store said go call when get computer abck and make appt . anyone can help me now? i have critical needs and cant be crashing govt computers.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yikes!

Read the discussion after the article carefully, please.
I've read it more than once already. I know what it says. But thanks.
All programs MUST RUN in order to do anything.
Of course. Somebody has to start it off. And that person is the one who wrote it.
Viruses do not and cannot simply install themselves.
You can't be serious. Windows users would heartily disagree that they need to do anything to receive and propagate the thousands of viruses and worms they have to deal with.
The whole point here is that computer scientists have broken down these types of malware by catagory to define how they operate once in the wild. Not how they start.
A virus or worm, once started, requires no interaction with the user to continue its own duplication or spreading. Windows viruses only need (in most cases) access to your email address book. They will happily send themselves back out to everyone in your book without any interaction from you. Or copy themselves from one Word document to another in the case of macro viruses. Again, without any help from you, or even your knowledge. Worms don't even need that. They duplicate by searching out other computers on their own. Again, no interaction by you is necessary. All a worm requires is that your computer is on so it can attempt to find it and copy itself to you.
A Trojan Horse, however, is dumb. It cannot replicate or do whatever it is written to do until you intentionally run it yourself.

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