[X4U] Implications of Boot Camp

[Robert Ameeti]

At 5:33 PM -0400, 4/5/06, T.L. Miller wrote:

>On 4/5/06, at 1:43 PM, Robert Nicholson robert at elastica.com said:
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>>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 thus 
>>making the machine and both OS's unbootable.
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>Since the OSes are on different partitions, that shouldn't be a problem.

It is not that they are on different partitions. It is that there are 
protected directories. Viruses can cross partitions in the Windows 
world. Nothing can write to a protected directory (even in the 
Window's world.) The problem is that in the Window's world, MS can 
not protect directories in XP since they always let developers write 
wherever they wanted in the past. With Vista, that is supposed to 
change. Time will tell.
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Robert Ameeti

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