Virus move from pc to mac?

Hi, so I just made the switch from pc to mac, and I may or may not have moved a virus. About a month ago, I had found a virus on my HP, and removed it and installed the necessary software. I guess in the process of backing up my files, the virus moved from my (now clean) PC to my external harddrive. I just got my mac today, and was going to start the transfer of all of my documents from the harddrive. When I opened the harddrive folder, I saw an autorun file and am assuming that is the virus (there are not any program files or run files on my harddrive).
I know it is possible for the virus to move from one computer to another via external harddrive, but is this also true for PC to mac? If I were using my PC, my antivirus software would catch it and I would be able to remove it using a program. But I currently do not have any such software for the mac.
Any suggestions on what to do would be greatly appreciated...
ps. my old PC is currently dead (unrelated to the virus) and all of my files solely exist on this external harddrive.

The only virus that are cross platform are macro virus (sometimes we find them in Word or Excel documents). Anyway, if you use Office 2008 that won't be a problem because MS removed VBA from the Mac version of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
One last word: the fact that right now there are no virus for the Mac doesn't mean we shouldn't be careful with what we install in our beloved machines.

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