Virus checker for Snow Leopard

When I booted up my Macbook Pro this morning, it behaved oddly. The clock was set to Jan, 2001 and it had forgotten my wireless network. While I'm not sure what caused this, I'd like to run a virus checker on it. I'm already running MacScan 2.0 for cookies and spyware.
What is the virus checker that plays nicely with Snow Leopard?
Thx1

As Kappy says, it's not a virus. See my [Mac Virus guide|http://www.reedcorner.net/thomas/guides/macvirus> for details on that topic.
How old is this machine? Is it possible that the battery may have run completely out at some point? I believe that there is a separate small battery hard-wired in somewhere that takes care of keeping time if power fails, but if that battery has failed and the computer lost all other power at some point, the clock would reset. Not sure if the wireless would also be affected by that, though.

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