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Protecting Mac OS X partition from evil Windows attack vector?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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If I choose to dual-boot my future Mac, how should I go about protecting the Mac partition?
In theory, Windows malware has full access to the whole Mac OS X partition and could write anywhere in there, right?
Any suggestions?
J
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Windows can't natively read/write HFS+ partitions, so unless you install additional software in Windows it can't get to the data.
Really Bad(tm) software could just start screwing with your partition tables and boot records (not caring what the partition type is), but I can't think of any way to protect yourself from that (aside from acting intelligently when using Windows).
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
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If you are even ABLE to dual-boot in the future...then that would be a good time to start worrying.
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iMac - C2D, 2.8Ghz, 4GB, 320GB
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by Chinasaur
If you are even ABLE to dual-boot in the future...then that would be a good time to start worrying.
Anything is possible. Since the core of OS X is open source, it wouldn't be particularly difficult to see what it takes to boot a new Mac and then squeeze in a BIOS emulator.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
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So apparently Vista won't have HFS+ support, then - good 
J
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