Hi Bill,
I run programs from the 'dark side' on my iMac (as there is no
equivalent on iMac that I can afford) using Parallels. I don't have
any virus protection at all on my Parallels partition as it never
connects (I believe) to the internet. I don't use the windows
browsers for surfing or e-mail, I do all that on my iMac.
I may be living in a 'fools paradise', but I have had no trouble
at all. I also make sure I have 'snapshots' of the parallels systems
so I can roll back to a known version of windows.
I do have a 4 port router, which acts as a firewall as well, so
this protects me from people getting into the system uninvited.
I would be interested in the comments of others, but my feeling is
that as long as I don't visit infected sites, and read infected e-
mails in my Windows Parallel system I should be OK. The same I would
think would apply to Fusion & windows.
cheers ... Clyde
On 13/06/2009, at 1:24 PM, William Chesnutt wrote:
I feel unclean to be even considering it, but I may have to instal
Fusion and Windows on my MacPro (OS 10.5.4).
This machine spends quite a bit of time on the net.
I've had very little experience with the dark side, but I've read
all the horror stories about virus problems on the internet.
The windows installation will be going onto its own partition. Can
anybody tell me if the computer can get infected just by having
windows on a partition, even if it's not running; or does it have to
be active before it becomes a virus magnet?
Thanks,
Bill Chesnutt
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