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General Mac hardware discussions: Switching to mac
I thought so...
by mriz - 1/27/08 8:18 AM In reply to: I thought so, by mrmacfixit
I agree with you that every vendor will indeed push to sell every product on earth...be it software or otherwise. That's the underlying premise of every business in our society. However, I cleared my first virus that my Mac AV detected. I work systems professionally. No machine that we deploy on any enterprise nor that I build, run or maintain has been or will be without AV. You are always welcome to disagree. However, from my technical perspective, I'm always more confident being safer now than sorrier later. Thanks.
Agree to disagree,
by mrmacfixit - 1/27/08 10:29 AM
In reply to: I thought so... by mriz
just as a matter of interest, what was the first virus that your Mac AV detected?
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Virus..
by mriz - 1/29/08 8:48 AM In reply to: Agree to disagree, by mrmacfixit
The MacAV picked up W32.Doly.11 and W32.Dumador.
Both came in through from Windows running on Parallels. I've since migrated over to VMWare Fusion and will need to upgrade my AV on the Windows side. Both viruses were picked up through the MacAV. Hence, this is a loophole for viruses to make it to the Mac world.
Close but no cigar
by mrmacfixit - 1/29/08 9:24 AM
In reply to: Virus.. by mriz
Those two miscreants are Windows viruses, more accurately Trojans, that only run on Windows, they do not run on OS X.
When you run Windows on your Mac, no matter whether it is by using a Virtual Machine or BootCamp, the running copy of Windows is as open to viruses as any other WinBox. The viruses that attack Windows do not run on Mac OS X. You could have a copy of Windows that was totally bogged down with viruses, the Mac side would be unaffected.
This is not a loophole for viruses to make it in, those viruses do not work.
You load up your Mac HD with those viruses and all they would do is take up space. We used to put infected Windows hard drives into a Mac and run AV software on them, knowing that the Mac would be unaffected by whatever was on the Windows HD.
As I said before, running AV on a Mac will alert you to Windows viruses and possibly prevent you from sending them on to those who run an OS that would be damaged by them.
Currently there are NO viruses, in the wild, that work on OS X. If you have real evidence to the contrary, please post.
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Either Way...
by mriz - 1/29/08 10:27 AM In reply to: Close but no cigar by mrmacfixit
Trojans, Viruses or whatever...no computer goes unprotected. Thanks.
Nice one
by innocent_bystander - 1/29/08 1:17 PM In reply to: Either Way... by mrizA fine rebuttal
Switching to a MAC
by colonnaf - 1/26/08 6:39 PM In reply to: Switching to mac by lohen_37First of all, if you truly switched to a MAC the only way you can add a Microsoft operating system is to add the Parallel program to the MAC. That allows you to have two O/S on your MAC. After installing the Parallel program you then install the MS O/S accordingly. As for RAM, be sure to put RaM into the MAC that is compatible. Depending on which MAC you bought, all the items you mentioned may not be able to be installed on the MAC. For instance, I have an IMAC with all hardware and software built in. To use a hard drive from another computer (pc) for instance, buy an external case and put the drive into that. These cases usually run from $20 on up. Once that is done, you then simply plug the external drive into the USB/Firewire socket and you now have another drive for use with the MAC. Leopard is the latest O/S for the MAC and can only be installed on a MAC.
Many other ways to run Windows of course
by RenoDavid - 1/27/08 12:15 AM In reply to: Switching to a MAC by colonnafBesides Apples's own Boot Camp there are 4 other ways to run Window's programs on a Mac. From an August 2007 CNET blog:
"With VMware's official release of Fusion 1.0 less than two weeks ago, there are now no less than four different ways to run Windows applications on Intel-based Macs. Fusion, as well as SWsoft's Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac use virtualization technology to allow you to simultaneously run the Windows operating system as a virtual machine alongside the Mac OS. CrossOver Mac 6.0 from CodeWeavers uses a different virtualization approach by building on the open-source API, Wine, which allows you to run individual Windows applications in the Mac OS without needing to install or run the Windows operating system."
Not what he asked
by mrmacfixit - 1/27/08 7:17 AM
In reply to: Switching to a MAC by colonnaf
The poster wanted to know what hardware changes he would have to make on his PC so that he could run OS X.
He did not actually switch to a Mac, he still has a PC.
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