[Ti] MASSIVE Virtual PC hard drive

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 7/28/04 3:31 PM, Dr. Trevor J. Hutley at hutley at geneva-link.ch wrote:

> At 14:57 -0700 28/7/04, Glenn L. Austin wrote:
>> XP uses more memory than earlier versions, and runs really well on a 512MB
>> machine, which means that your Powerbook should have 768MB or more of RAM.
> 
> Glenn - I have 1 Gb of RAM in my Powerbook.

Good.  Give your virtual machine 512 MB of RAM.

>> Also make sure that you've got recent (this week!) virus detection running,
>> and check your VPC for spyware.
> 
> Are you suggesting that there could be a virus causing this masssive
> drive expansion ?
> I have  Virex on my Powerbook, but nothing on my VPC (thinking: there
> is no way for any virus to transfer from a PC to a Mac, and that I
> use VPC only perhaps once a day for a short time, and never for
> email, so I assumed my chance of virus attack was virtually zero.)

Outlook is just one of many "vectors" for viruses on PCs.  IE is just about
as bad as so many web servers running IIS are infected in one way or another
that the last estimate I saw was somewhere in the 80% range (!) were
infected in one way or another.

My VPC has even been affected by other Wintel machines on the network, just
by connecting to the network.  I just hope that M$ finally is able to shut
down all of the holes in the OS -- one day.

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