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Originally Posted by Captain Code Yes, but how many people actually do that. | I was addressing the issue of vulnerability and Windows running on VPC is every bit as vulnerable as Windows running on Pentium hardware. To say otherwise is, to my way of thinking, inviting the uninformed to take unnecessary risk. Quote: |
Originally Posted by ElDialoConCaca For VPC to infect a Macintosh outside of the VPC Shared Folder, the virus would have to be specifically written to handle UNIX-style directories | I haven't tried this lately so I don't know for certain this is still true in Windows 2000 and XP, but in Windows 98 and NT, when addressing a networked drive, Windows automatically translated a "\" to "/" for network compatibility purposes. Since VPC sees accessible volumes on the Mac as network drives and since Windows XP running on VPC can easily drill down through multiple layers of folders on accessible Mac volumes I have to believe that is still true. Therefore I have to believe slash vs. backslash would present no barrier at all.
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