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Windows Viruses on VPC?
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Can you get Windows viruses when running VPC?
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Yes, it is fun.
Seriously, yes you can, it's perfectly possible if you use the virus injection utility (Outlook Express) to receive mail.
So good luck, there are quite a few out there, try not to patch, and you should have a healthy crop in no time.
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If I am not mistaken, though, any damage would be limited to the VPC disk image. Can anyone confirm this?
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Most viruses are written, at least in part, in assembly language. Those that are, will not be able to operate on the PPC platform, this includes the PPC platform running VPC.
As for those not written in assembly, they rely on the Windows API's, which are in no shape or form compatible with X's API's...so I would assume the assertion made by the prior poster saying that said viruses would be limited to the VPC image, should be correct.
jesse ;-)
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Originally posted by jessejlt:
Most viruses are written, at least in part, in assembly language. Those that are, will not be able to operate on the PPC platform, this includes the PPC platform running VPC.
What? VPC will do its mojo and translate/recompile the intel machine code to PPC machine code...
Anyway, yes, the damage will be limited tot he VPC environment (unless you have shared folders)
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Viruses *can* affect VPC, and for that reason it's good to keep a copy of a "clean" Windows image lying around that you don't ever use. If your Windows under VPC gets corrupted, just back up what data you need to OS X, trash the image, dupe your clean copy, and copy your data back over.
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Originally posted by rlmorel:
If I am not mistaken, though, any damage would be limited to the VPC disk image. Can anyone confirm this?
Except, it can infect shares (or simply delete files in them) and it can access the local network (if that is enabled) for viruses or worms which can spread through the network (bad for other PCs on the network). Also, any outlook virus can infect any PC users you have in your outbox.
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Originally posted by jessejlt:
Most viruses are written, at least in part, in assembly language. Those that are, will not be able to operate on the PPC platform, this includes the PPC platform running VPC.
Patently wrong. There may be virii which for one reason or another are incompatible with VPC - just like many Windows programs are - but the majority of them will happily infect any VPC system they are introduced into regardless if they are written in assembler, C, VB, C#, or Office Macros.
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