> Actually, I have to take exception to your statement that XP can't > even see the Mac partitions,
Have you tried Boot Camp. I have not, I don't have an Intel Mac, so I am just parroting from published reports. Your larger point is absolutely correct, in that Windows PCs connected to Macintosh volumes over a network can see the data if they are set up correctly, and some of the dual boot hacks preceding Boot Camp didn't have this limitation. Moreover, the shipping version of Boot Camp in Leopard may not have this constraint. > and therefore viruses running on XP can't affect the OS X partitions. Perhaps I should have been more clear. There is no evidence that malware on a Windows PC or network can infect files on OS X volumes. This vector of attack has long been available and OS X has exhibited no vulnerability to it. Therefore, it is spurious to argue that Boot Camp changes this equation significantly. A virus could delete any file of course, if that is what its payload was designed to do, but for this to effect a Mac user, the Mac user would first have had to extend permissions to a Windows person or system. If your trusted colleague starts maliciously erasing files on a shared drive, that is not a weakness in OS X. > It's easy enough to trash the master boot record, partition tables, > and boot sectors of hds regardless of os installed. These PC concepts do are not sufficiently equivalent on a Mac formatted volume to expect that a PC virus could do this kind of low-level damage. Yes I responded to Abdul's troll. I still presume that the flamebait was out of ignorance and therefore worthy of education. I am disciplined not to respond immediately, but not enough not to respond at all. On other boards I can count on someone else to handle the requisite flaming...
