Hmm, my thought is that files could be affected, but as Jane points
out, the files won't really do anything to the Mac. My fear would be
that the virus is destructive and could delete files, or access
content contained within files in your home folder. I think it's one
of these situations where you're better safe than sorry.
You should not need to install any keyboard drivers. You will,
however, need to install Greek language support, the same way you
would if you installed Windows on a new machine.
HTH,
Steve
On Jul 29, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
So in other words, if I have this file that's in the shared folder,
it'll be affected no matter what or only if I access it through
Windows? If I were to move it to another folder in the Mac, before I
got any kind of virus, it would be fine right? Sorry for asking
stupid questions. And please, do I need keyboard drivers or not? If
so, which ones do I need? Ooh, I just thought of something! Do I
need to get them for both English and Greek?
On 7/29/08, Jane Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Tiffany,Viruses don't affect Macs. Yes, the files will be
infected and
you will have to do something about that on the Windows side, but it
won't
do anything on the Mac side.
My two cents: I love vmware fusion. It's a lot easier than booting
up into
windows by restarting.
cheers,
jane
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Tiffany D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Thanks, especially for the tip. As for usage, same here. I'm mostly
using it for my Greek lessons, to access certain sites that Safari
can't handle and maybe to do some scanning. But question. Since
you've matched up the two folders, if I get a virus on the Windows
side, will it effect the Mac, since the folder is shared?
On 7/29/08, erik burggraaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Fusion and bootcamp are both great. Which is best for you depends
entirely on what your needs are.
I chose fusion because I only want to do the odd thing in windows
and
I don't want to interupt the rest of my computing life to take
care of
windows business. If you don't care about the seperation, then
bootcamp is free and more than adaquit.
Fusion is %100 accessible, don't worry about a thing there.
There are several good key mapping utilities, but since I'm a
window-
eyes user I don't need them and have largely ignored the threads on
them.
When you install windows on fusion it will place your mac home
folder
as a shared drive under my computer. I enhanced this by moving the
target of my documents on the windows side to the documents folder
of
my home folder on the mac. That means no copying and pasting is
required between my documents under windows and /users/rico/
documents
on my mac.
Hope this helps,
erik burggraaf
Certified Technician
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On 29-Jul-08, at 11:32 AM, Tiffany D wrote:
Geia sas,
So I've decided to go with Fusion rather than Bootcamp. A very
knowledgible friend told me it was a better bet. However, he's
familiar only with Windows and not Mac. So how accessible is
Fusion
on the mac in general? Can I have a shared folder and move files
between the two systems like he said? What kinds of drivers will I
need to get so that Windows will recognise the keys on my Mac? If
Fusion isn't the best option for vmware, then what is?
Thanks,
Tiffanitsa
