Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I do not know how vulnerable it is from experience, but in the instructions for Parallels it says: > Parallels Desktop for Mac runs the guest OS in special virtualized > environment that emulates separate computer. This virtualized computer > is as vulnerable to the viruses as a usual PC running Windows. We > highly recommend that you install some anti-virus software and > firewall in the guest OS. > Please mind that although computer viruses and similar malicious > software can't affect MacOS X itself, Shared Folders content which is > accessible from Windows side can be corrupted so you shouldn't store > any important data there (or back it up regularly). I only run Parallels for a few windows programs, like frontpage, that I see no reason to get the Mac version of. I do not connect to the internet with it, just use it for local files. Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > > > Brian, > > With Windows running in Parallels, the viruses have to get through the > Mac built in firewall first. Remember that in Parallels, Windows is > running on the Mac OS. Not so for Bootcamp. Here the Mac is directly > booted into Windows and is vulnerable to all Windows malware. At our > university, we have been running Windows XP in Parallels on Intel Mac > 17" and 20" computers using OS 10.4 for 6 months and have yet to be > infected with a Windows virus. > > Larry Z -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html