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Rapidly spreading windows virus

srf4real said:
So now that Macs run Windows, it goes to follow that apples can be infected as well?? :eek:
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Yes, but only if you are using Windows at the time. OS X is still not affected. :D
 
*Scratches Parallels off list of potential software buys


So glad to have left all that behind. Eventually it will catch up with us, I suppose, but the security is nice at the moment.
 
Yeah you gotta understand a WINDOWS virus can only
affect your Windows partition.

It can't sneak across the HD to your Mac OSX partition
although if you share your e-mail across both platforms
you could end up with more e-mail spam.
 
What was Apple thinking!? Apples are officially vulnerable to Virus!:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I will buy an antique powermac g5 in four years and have more computer then I know what to do with. Windows sux.
 
it is spreading, 20 mins ago a friend dumped his pc tower at mine with this exact problem, it started sending out msn messages on its own and all these odd files appeared in its c:\ drive and desktop

ill probly format it for the helll of it anyway.
 
FFTT said:
Yeah you gotta understand a WINDOWS virus can only
affect your Windows partition.

It can't sneak across the HD to your Mac OSX partition
although if you share your e-mail across both platforms
you could end up with more e-mail spam.
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but it might cause other problems to your HD if it can affect the hardware and so on.
 
I find it funny how little people actually know about malware.

Macs have been susceptible to Windows viruses in the past when Windows was installed with VPC. So it's not like this is something new.

As for viruses damaging the hardware, I've never seen a virus carrying a hammer...
 
plinkoman said:
this makes me glad I have a PPC, and not an intel Mac with boot camp and windows like all of you losers. :p
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This makes me glad that I never will need Boot Camp or Parallels. :D
 
I got a Windows virus on the first night I installed it. Ah well. I'm just disabling the WiFi connection when in Windows in the future. silly system. silly sausage.
 
Onizuka said:
As for viruses damaging the hardware, I've never seen a virus carrying a hammer...
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I think what he means is that the virus can corrupt the onboard BIOS in certain hardware, like an ethernet card, for example
 
Onizuka said:
I find it funny how little people actually know about malware.

Macs have been susceptible to Windows viruses in the past when Windows was installed with VPC. So it's not like this is something new.

As for viruses damaging the hardware, I've never seen a virus carrying a hammer...
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My friend told me about a virus that went around way back in the day that killed one of his computers...it somehow corrupted the BIOS and changed a limiter for the processor clock speed...and the processor melted. :eek:
 
beatsme said:
I think what he means is that the virus can corrupt the onboard BIOS in certain hardware, like an ethernet card, for example
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good thing Macs use EFI then.
 
7on said:
good thing Macs use EFI then.
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A) Thats not what the poster meant. The BIOS/ROM/Firmware of the ethernet card (e.g.) are different from the system BIOS.

B)PC's will soon not use system BIOS either. Santa Rosa brings EFI to Intels and all Itanium 64 bit computers use it already. EFI is an Intel designed technology.
 
Frogurt said:
A) Thats not what the poster meant. The BIOS/ROM/Firmware of the ethernet card (e.g.) are different from the system BIOS.

B)PC's will soon not use system BIOS either. Santa Rosa brings EFI to Intels and all Itanium 64 bit computers use it already. EFI is an Intel designed technology.
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But won't Windows still need a BIOS? I thought that's basically what boot camp does is emulate a BIOS...
 
Killyp said:
But won't Windows still need a BIOS? I thought that's basically what boot camp does is emulate a BIOS...
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Currently official Windows only supports EFI in server versions running on Itanium systems (which are a separate architecture from x86) but current betas of Vista do support it. In March Microsoft said that Vista itself would support EFI for 64 bit, but not at launch. How that will square with Santa Rosa being released will be interesting, but if Intel is pushing it for their systems, Microsoft won't delay too long. The only reason they don't now is that very few manufactures use EFI. Which is kinda a Catch-22 since no one wants to make a computer without an operating system.
 
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