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Old February 26th, 2005, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by chevy
2) If you use VPC you are vulnerable to Windows viruses.
...it should be noted that any Windows virii/spyware that you get in VirtualPC will be limited to the VirtualPC operating system, and cannot, in any way, damage or affect your Mac OS X system. At the worst, your Virtual OS will be kaput and will have to be deleted and re-installed, but OS X and your hardware will be absolutely fine.
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