[X4U] Implications of Boot Camp

[Robert Ameeti]

At 7:38 PM -0700, 4/6/06, Jim Robertson wrote:

>On 4/6/06 7:14 AM, "Stroller" <macmonster at myrealbox.com> wrote:
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>>  there's no clear indication in your post
>>  that you need the Professional edition of XP over the Home edition.
>
>I know virtually nothing about the various flavors of XP. I bought XP Pro
>for two computers in our office because I read something that said that if
>there were more than five nodes on a network XP Pro was the better choice.
>
>If I have a laptop (MacBook Pro) that joins a network occasionally, but the
>network has 8-20 machines on it, and I configure the Windows partition to be
>a DHCP client of our DSL router, can it be running XP Home edition?

Boot Camp can use XP Pro or XP Home. The hack of a few weeks ago must 
use XP Pro.

If you are going to need to join a Domain (a workgroup that is 
centrally authenticated by a domain controller), then you need XP 
Pro. If you are just going to join a workgroup of computers (10 or 
less), then you can use XP Home.

XP Pro has additional features that make it a worthy OS over the Home version.

>Is XP Pro better configured to avoid infections?

It is not Pro or Home but rather the SP2 update for either that is 
better against infections.

>I've asked as many people as I had time to today about their experiences
>with viruses and spyware. One person told me he had a computer on his office
>LAN that Ad-Aware claimed to find 1400 spyware executables running on. Is
>that possible?

Sure it. They probably weren't all executables but rather malware 
files and registry keys, etc.

>Hearing these stories, I'm amazed that people just roll over and accept it.

They either must run Windows or they are scared to do something that 
the masses aren't doing.
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Robert Ameeti

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