On 13/06/2009, at 1:46 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
As a similar reluctant Fusion/Windows user I can say I have been
pleasantly surprised. CNET AVG Anti Virus is free and is updated
regularly. Because Fusion is really a Mac application running, I do
not blieve having it on a separate partition will offer any extra
protection.
Best wishes
Severin Crisp
Packages such as Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion and Sun's VirtualBox
store their virtual machines in Disk Images, which are effectively
software "partitions". Either way the effect is the same: the Windows
system is "sandboxed" away from your Mac OS stuff.
In any event, even if Windows malware does land on your Mac, it cannot
live on the Mac OS planet.
The exception, of course, are the MS Office macro viruses, but then
these are platform-agnostic, depending on Visual Basic rather than the
OS itself.
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