[X4U] Implications of Boot Camp

[Robert Nicholson]

What is protected about running Windows native on the same drive as  
OSX? Surely a virus on Windows is not restricted to writing to the  
windows partition.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 3:31 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> 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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