Virus........ Bacterial infection ??

Seems like a virus------ For some time now, sync to itunes on mac from iphone got slower and slower in some hang up with iphoto import.... the functioning of the camera on iphone slowed down and i noticed my iphoto library bizarrely multiplying... when iphoto disappeared from dock and hard drive, the iphone sync used image capture... apple phone support helped me reinstall iphoto and transfer the photos from image capture to iphoto uncovering photos that had been copied over and over.. apple phone support insisted that i was not selecting apply "do not import duplicates".... anyhow, As i went through the 8000 photos in iphoto library to delete out the copies, i began noticing groups of weird symbols, that began displaying as though they were pictures i had taken.. they seemed to be "uncovering" as i deleted out the bulk of the photo copies... some of the pictures where as if i took a close-up photo with my iphone of the "hangman" game on a piece of paper.... groupings of diamonds and weird cartoon characters "uncovered"... my iphone camera roll began displaying "black patches" over or between the photos on the iphone camera roll ....
the guys at apple phone support were only familiar with the group of diamond/gem type symbols/sections and said that i had imported part of the operating system from ichat into iphoto from the iphone..... as of now, my iphone photo and iphoto are not working properly.... there is some type of corruption and i drug it right onto my new iphone4
Hopefully i find someone familiar with this issue to remove the corruption so that i can use iphoto and the iphone camera...... Thankyou for your interest

No such animal in the mac os... windows? Yes.. unless you got Microsoft Security Essentials.. Just because you install windows on your mac doesn't make you immune from viruses.. when you select your windows bootcamp drive, its as if you are using a windows pc - sorta.

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