Virus/Firewall Protection In VPC?

[swiftaw]

I am awaiting my first ever Mac (New 15" Powerbook due Wednesday) and as much as I hate to I will have to run VPC for several things I need at work.

My question is this, obviously i will need some kind of antivirus program running in VPC to protect XP, but what about a firewall. Will VPC be protected by the OS X firewall or does it need to be running its own firewall (such as the one with XP SP2)

Thanks in advance.

 

[bubbamac]

I am awaiting my first ever Mac (New 15" Powerbook due Wednesday) and as much as I hate to I will have to run VPC for several things I need at work.

My question is this, obviously i will need some kind of antivirus program running in VPC to protect XP, but what about a firewall. Will VPC be protected by the OS X firewall or does it need to be running its own firewall (such as the one with XP SP2)

Thanks in advance.

Your Windows machine running under VPC will not take advantage of OSX's firewall. Get yourself some ZoneAlarm action.

Anti-virus... you really should. I don't, but should.

 

[mkrishnan]

Your Windows machine running under VPC will not take advantage of OSX's firewall. Get yourself some ZoneAlarm action.

So I don't use VPC, but I'm curious about this answer. Isn't VPC a software program like any other, that must access network ports through the OS? Granted that VPC will not block an attempt at port access by a Win program, but will pass it to OS X, won't OS X then block the port if it is not permitted? Likewise, if a transmission is pinged incoming, it has to get through the OS X firewall to get to VPC to get to Windows, doesn't it?