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Running Windows on a Mac safe?
Wouldn’t running the windows os on the mac make the mac hardware more vulnerable to windows viruses?
Wouldn’t that affect your mac os apps as well?
I own both PCs and Macs and have always liked the fact that Macs have lower risk of virus infection than pcs which seems like it has a million and one virueses out there waiting to infect the machine.
What are your thoughts?
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[Markford Astina] “uldn’t running the windows os on the mac make the mac hardware more vulnerable to windows viruses?”
Yes, but only when you are running Windows. Those viruses wont work when you are running OSX. You do need to take all the anti virus measures that PC users use when running Windows on an Intel Mac.
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The only way for Windows to mess up OS X is for it to somehow affect the hardware. Like, a virus that damages the entire hard drive, not just the section that Windows is on.
I think that kind of thing is very rare. Most Windows viruses just mess up Windows which, yes, is bad for the Windows part of your computer but it shouldn’t mess up anything else.
At any rate, it can ALL be avoided by keeping Windows offline. I have Windows on my Macbook Pro and I use it for some specific programs that are Windows only. That’s all I need it for and I don’t use Windows to connect to the ‘net. It’s pretty darn safe if you use it that way!
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