dhbailey wrote:
It will also be interesting to see if virus-writers now go after Macs, since they'll be sharing the same hardware.
Virus writers (essentially) don't go after hardware. They exploit security flaws in software. Most of the time the software they exploit is OS software. (The rampant MS Word viruses a few years ago were an exception, and I believe Mac MS Word was also vulnerable.)
To the extent that MacIntels have Win installed on them, they will be as vulnerable as any Win machine is when running Win (either natively or under VPC). When running MacOS they will be vulnerable to MacOS viruses.
FWIW: a current PPC MacOS computer running VPC is vulnerable to Win viruses when running Win.
Do not think MacOS computers are immune to viruses. Far from it. The reason they don't get very many is that Win computers have such overwhelming numbers on the 'net that a MacOS virus has difficulty spreading. There's a basic form of epidemiology at work.
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