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To: quidnunc

Probably only within the virtual machine itself. I can't see how a virtual machine running Windows can usefully infect the outside Mac OS with something.


5 posted on 12/09/2006 9:50:43 PM PST by mhx
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To: mhx; Swordmaker
Probably only within the virtual machine itself. I can't see how a virtual machine running Windows can usefully infect the outside Mac OS with something.

Mmmm, I'd be careful with what sections of the Mac OS disk that you allow the Windows virtual machine to see.

It is quite conceivable that someone comes up with a Windows virus that scans to see if "Mac System"-looking directory structures are accessible, and then deposits a Mac executalbe malicious payload in a place sensitive to the Mac OS.

6 posted on 12/09/2006 10:35:21 PM PST by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
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