Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/24

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Windows viruses
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Fri Aug 24 17:24:45 2007
References: <200708242349.l7ONmned084010@server1.waverley.reid.org>
 
On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Brian wrote after two beers at lunch:

> A Windows machine is a Windows
> machine, whether it is physical or virtual, and if you can get web  
> pages to
> it then you can get viruses to it.
>
> I do not consider a Parallels-emulated Windows machine to be any  
> more virus
> resistant than a physical windows machine. If you don't want it to get
> viruses, then don't connect it to the network and/or run antivirus  
> software
> on it.


Essentially we agree. Windows viruses screw up the Windows partition  
on the hard disk. The don't bother the Mac side at all. As a Mac  
user, that's all I care about.

Larry Z