Windows XP on Mac: Safe From Viruses?

Sunday, Apr. 16 2006 | Author: J. Angelo Racoma

Research and Analysis firm Gartner claims that MacIntel Windows XP users should be safe from virus attacks.

“All users should ignore any hype about the possibility of exposing the Mac OS to more viruses or worms. The Mac software will be located on another partition within a different file system; thus, running Windows on a Mac will not expose the Mac software to more malware.”

I think this is a very dangerous assumption. Even if the Mac data and software were located on another partition, your data would still be vulnerable to deletion and possible corruption, if a virus were designed to manipulate the disc’s partition table itself. Your data could potentially be wiped out in a snap!

Category: Security, Apple

4 Responses for "Windows XP on Mac: Safe From Viruses?"

Gubatron

April 16th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
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That’s why I think Mac should be totally going on the opposite direction. Opening a driver certification program, and letting hardware developers create drivers for Mac OS.

Then start selling Mac OS X for anyone who has an intel pc. The iPod only got real big when they made it compatible with PC.

Such a great operating system, which already meets all of what Vista dreams of, would totally own a big slice of the cake.

Running XP on my new iMac? No way dude, that’s retard.
Sunny

April 16th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
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I thought Windows couldn’t write to a HFS+ drive?!
Ilyana

April 16th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
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i heard mac if gets in an internal error which break ur computer so u hav 2 be double careful
David

July 5th, 2006 at 5:45 am
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you are stupid, mac didn’t just come up with the program boot-camp over night, they put thought into it and i talked to one of the designer and asked a bunch of questions and never at once did he say u will get a virus..mac has a hidden driver in boot-camp that uses the same software as mac, so dont worry about it..you are against it because you are a Pc (piece of crap) fan and dont like mac