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. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. -- Mark Twain, A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>