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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I have personally never heard of a Kindle virus nor have I ever heard of a kindle spreading any virus to a Mac or a PC in any way. The troubble is that the kindle does not use any version of Mac OS or Windows, therefore a virus needs to be specifically written for a Kindle and this has not happned as yet.
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The Kindle can't (yet) execute the virus, but it can carry it in the way that any storage drive can. An PC with an active virus can copy the file to the Kindle. Without some form of autorun, the file on the Kindle would have to be manually executed from a computer to activate. In that sense, the Kindle can passively spread the virus, with the help of an unsuspecting user.