Snow Leopard's Boot Camp Includes HFS+ Windows Drivers

[MikhailT]

Many people are forgetting that viruses can simply erase all partitions rather than corrupt data. That to me poses a much bigger threat than data corruption. Read-only drivers please!

Read-only drivers won't protect you from having its partition deleted, it can do that without even having any kind of drivers in the first place.

Viruses are very slowly dying out to torjans. The authors are now trying to make it into a business to make money by blackmailing or by controlling the computers as a botnet.

 

[Terpander]

Safety

Does this mean that Macs will become more vulnerable to internet viruses? If I understand correctly the fact that malicious programs which were downloaded while we surfed and were not able to execute themselves due to compatibility issues will be able to do so now as easily as on a PC. I for one, if right, am not looking forward to Nortons and Macafees and their constant upgrades. Can anyone elucidate? (I admit I only read the article and not the almost 200 responses)

 

[DoFoT9]

Does this mean that Macs will become more vulnerable to internet viruses? If I understand correctly the fact that malicious programs which were downloaded while we surfed and were not able to execute themselves due to compatibility issues will be able to do so now as easily as on a PC. I for one, if right, am not looking forward to Nortons and Macafees and their constant upgrades. Can anyone elucidate? (I admit I only read the article and not the almost 200 responses)

unless the virus is a well written one that can maliciously attack any part of the hard drive it has (and get permission to do that), no - you will be safe from a good >95% of viruses (on the mac side of things anyway).

 

[dhowden]

Nice one Appl! I'm looking forward to 10.6

 

[MacManiac76]

Don't really use Boot Camp, but this sounds like a nice feature. Would be able to access the media files on an HFS+ partition while in Windows.

 

[Sambo110]

How will we install the new boot camp? Will we have to uninstall Windows and reinstall it?

 

[r.j.s]

How will we install the new boot camp? Will we have to uninstall Windows and reinstall it?

It is usually an update that you install in Windows.

 

[DoFoT9]

It is usually an update that you install in Windows.

more in-depthly: you download an iso/disc image file, burn that to a disc, and then run that in Windows and it does it all for you (over rides the previous drivers of course).

 

[tweeg]

btw, i currently have Leopard with Xp on a fat partition via bootcamp.

if i upgrade to Snow Leopard will my Xp partition stay intact ?

 

[pr5owner]

read-only would be nice, otherwise there is the risk of virii getting to the Mac files

you mac users really surf that many questionable/porn sites that your scared of viruses?

heres an idea, stop being an idiot when it comes to the internet.

 

[CQd44]

you mac users really surf that many questionable/porn sites that your scared of viruses?

heres an idea, stop being an idiot when it comes to the internet.

There are some people I recommend macs to simply because they're a lot more user-proof than windows machines are.

 

[DoFoT9]

you mac users really surf that many questionable/porn sites that your scared of viruses?

heres an idea, stop being an idiot when it comes to the internet.

Of course we do . But seriously, i think the problem is that most switchers are not educated enough with the whole virus thing, they think macs virusi are just as common as pc based ones - whci hwe all know is entirely false.

We all know the reasons why any computer gets a virus - people doing stupid things whether it be emails, porn or whatever. It's not because of any other reason (unless you are unlucky and get hit by a pretty mean virus).

Why is there reason i should be scared of a virus on my mac? There are none! I go to many questionable websites, have my firewall off and everything. Im fine after 5 years! My pc doesnt even have antivirus nor firewall. You just have to play it smart.

 

[AaronX]

I'm wondering how this is implemented? I upgraded to SL but when I booted into Win I couldn't find my Mac drive. What do I have to do?

 

[allbrokeup]

Install the Windows Boot Camp Drivers from the Snow Leopard Disc.