[X4U] Implications of Boot Camp
Robert Ameeti
Robert at Ameeti.net
Wed Apr 5 13:31:26 PDT 2006
At 1:43 PM -0500, 4/5/06, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>I'd say it's only a matter of time before someone writes a virus
>that trashes the area that Bootcamp uses for it's configuration
That would be within the Windows partition which could only write to
those directories that Mac OS X allows it to write to. And this is
why running VPC doesn't allow a virus to damage OS X. Protected
directories are protected directories.
>thus making the machine and both OS's unbootable.
Nope.
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