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Dec 19, 2010
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I need to buy a new computer for school (Windows recommended). Since I have been a Mac guy for 5 years, I am leaning towards sticking with Mac and running windows via parallels, fusion, or bootcamp when internet explorer or other Windows native programs are needed.
However, the possibility of getting a virus while running Windows and having it corrupt files on my Mac partition has me concerned. :(

So other than running the requisite antivirus/spyware programs in Windows, what settings would I need to use in parallels,fusion, or bootcamp to mitigate the risk of a virus affecting things on Mac partition?

Thanks
 
If you don't enable folder sharing, the virus won't be able to access your OS X files.
 
Alright. So just not enabling folder sharing should protect my Mac files. Sounds easy enough.
Thanks
 
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