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Old February 27th, 2005, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by perfessor101
I am not as sanguine as you about the scope of risk using VPC. Ifyou read email, download files, or cruise the internet in VPC your risk is exactly the same as it would be running a hardware PC.

Yes, but how many people actually do that. There's not really any reason to load VPC to check email or browse the internet. I'm just going on my usage, but I can't see that most people would use it for stuff you could use the Mac for at a greater speed.
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