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March 5th, 2005, 07:30 PM
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Virtual PC takes care of this translation to make the mounted volume look like a normal Windows mapped drive.
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March 25th, 2005, 04:24 PM
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| I just use one of the free Windows security programs (can't remember which at the moment - probably Zone Alarm) to completely block access to and from the Internet for VPC. All my Internet surfing, downloading, emailing is done with OS X. Haven't had any problems yet. I don't use VPC for anything except for fun (I'm fascinated by emulators), so I'm not going to buy an Internet security program to protect a virtual machine. Also, I only share a single subfolder. Doug
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April 3rd, 2005, 04:16 PM
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| With all this talk of viruses I'm trying to look into a decent anti-virus scanner. Right now I'm using clamXav, last night it found 8 viruses in my home folder, obviously windows viruses. However just because there aren't any OS X viruses yet it could be possible to create one. What I'm looking for is a good virus scanner. What I would like is something that can scan the entire startup disk, one of clamav's downfalls is that it can't. Also I would prefer a cocoa app. If it could be free that would certainly help. What has everbody else had good luck with?
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April 4th, 2005, 01:02 AM
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| Virus scanning for OS X? Me? No. Not until one actually appears. Doug
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April 4th, 2005, 12:19 PM
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| Well my concern is not protecting against an OS X virus, as I am aware that such a virus does not exist. What I am trying to avoid is passing one on to some unfortunate windows user. Also it doesn't hurt to have a mechanism in place in the case that a virus is ever created for OS X.
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April 4th, 2005, 12:54 PM
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| My view is it's pretty hard to pass on a windows virus to windows users unless you are deliberatly forwarding strange emails to people. I don't see why I should slow down my computer by running resource sucking AV software if I don't have to.
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April 4th, 2005, 06:00 PM
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| how impossible is it to create a virus for osX - someone can hack everything. osX is hackable - how hackable?
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