On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
I am not a user of Virtual PC myself but some of you may be.
This article may be informative for you. ( or not )
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=5742&tag=nl.e550
This information does NOT apply to the versions of Virtual PC sold for
the Mac, only the modern ones that run under Windows.
MS bought the company and the product, promptly killed the Mac version
and rolled it into Windows as their VM solution, to head off VMWare's
advances into the Windows virtualization world.
from the article:
"Affected software includes Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Virtual PC 2007
SP1, Windows Virtual PC and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. On Windows
7 the XP Mode feature is also affected by the vulnerability."
The REALLY troubling feature of this story is that last little bit
about Windows 7.
When you run an XP mode application in Win7 YOU DON'T KNOW you're
running Virtual PC. This would be akin to a bug in Rosetta or Classic
mode allowing PPC application or a Classic OS Application bug to let
you attack the OS X host system.
I'm SOOOOOO GLAD I'm using a rationally designed OS!
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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