I Want To Try Windows 7 On My Mac

[ThaiLife]

I have both a PC and a Mac, I would like to try out Windows 7 on the large iMac 24 inch screen , just to see what it looks like, using a separate partition on the Mac , may be with Boot Camp, I am wondering should should some thing get infected on the Windows partition , would the infection be in any way passed onto the Mac partition ..? any comments or suggestions would be most welcome , but Please no Mac Vs PC debate

[losworld]

no shouldn't be a problem... you can use bootcamp or parallels which will allow you to enter without reboot but I think bootcamp is more stable

[Deksan]

I have both a PC and a Mac, I would like to try out Windows 7 on the large iMac 24 inch screen , just to see what it looks like, using a separate partition on the Mac , may be with Boot Camp, I am wondering should should some thing get infected on the Windows partition , would the infection be in any way passed onto the Mac partition ..? any comments or suggestions would be most welcome , but Please no Mac Vs PC debate

Google first link might give you some ideas :

http://www.simplehelp.net/2009/01/15/using...te-walkthrough/

[jackdanielsesq]

What are ya running on the PC? If its good, keep it. W7 is Beta, always will be!!

Why bother, simply d/l the W7 wallpapers, screenshots, etc

Of course viruses are transferable, thats why they are called that and not donuts, et al.

BR>Jack

[jerrylee]

I have both a PC and a Mac, I would like to try out Windows 7 on the large iMac 24 inch screen , just to see what it looks like, using a separate partition on the Mac , may be with Boot Camp, I am wondering should should some thing get infected on the Windows partition , would the infection be in any way passed onto the Mac partition ..? any comments or suggestions would be most welcome , but Please no Mac Vs PC debate

Unless windoze 7 is carbonized it will only appear in an emulation mode,

it was not designed for that hardware platform to generate income,

its for PCs wannabe looking like a Mac !

[garyh]

What are ya running on the PC? If its good, keep it. W7 is Beta, always will be!!

Why bother, simply d/l the W7 wallpapers, screenshots, etc

Of course viruses are transferable, thats why they are called that and not donuts, et al.

BR>Jack

Windows 7 will allways be a beta???????? what planet are you from?

[nikster]

Just do it using Bootcamp, it will do things like partitioning and stuff for you. Viruses can't cross over to the Mac because they don't run on Mac.

Windows can't even read the Mac partition format (HFS+), so you are extra safe - there is no way to access the mac disk from Windows unless you install special software to do so...

[nikster]

PS: While I am not a huge fan of Windows, Win 7 is certainly much better than Vista, and most certainly going to be final real soon now. Looks like the worthy successor to XP - warts and all

[jackdanielsesq]

I rest my case!!

The OP is looking for eye candy !!

Not start a virus war.

BR>Jack

Unix, Linux, Mac, M$ - thats the virus foodchain - dont waste ya time, man.

OK - wanna play hardball - wait till one eats ya MBR or BIOS - there is only one way to recover from that scenario.

M$ Vista never got outa Alpha, hence W7/8/9/?? It is simply a h/w windup - nothing works any better.

With a 99% client base, why not. M$ cant handle viruses, now ya gonna trust their AV software?! Yikes - naivete!!

Of course viruses are transferable, thats why they are called that and not donuts, et al.

[Orion76]

I have Windows 7 installed on my Mac running under VMWare Fusion.

Install it as Windows Server 2008, works like a charm

[Veazer]

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Of course viruses are transferable, thats why they are called that and not donuts, et al.

Cross platform viruses are extremely rare, and i've never heard of any virus that affects mac AND windows systems.

[anothertorres]

I have Windows 7 installed on my Mac running under VMWare Fusion.

Install it as Windows Server 2008, works like a charm

same, same.

[jackdanielsesq]

Great cross counsel but no cigar.

Y'all gonna have to excuse me while I go pour myself a virtaul Jack

BR>Jack

Cross platform viruses are extremely rare, and i've never heard of any virus that affects mac AND windows systems.

[endure]

What are ya running on the PC? If its good, keep it. W7 is Beta, always will be!!

Why bother, simply d/l the W7 wallpapers, screenshots, etc

Of course viruses are transferable, thats why they are called that and not donuts, et al.

BR>Jack

Viruses are transferable from Windows to OSX?

[Tywais]

Viruses are transferable from Windows to OSX?

It would be a big leap to jump the boundary between the two since the executable codes of applications and the system libraries that many viruses rely upon are not the same. In other words, a virus in the form of an application executable can normally only run on one OS platform type, MS, Linux, OSX, etc. Scripts (Word Macros, etc.) have the potential but need to be run under the specific OS to infect it. Also, the file systems are considerably different. OSX using HSF and MS using FAT32/NTFS and requires the extra software to even be able to see the other OS files.

Now regarding OSX (Mac) vulnerabilities:

"In 2006 the National Institute of Standards and Testing counted 106 'vulnerabilities' in Mac OS X, with 78 vulnerabilities appearing during the first six months of 2007. Those numbers compare to Microsoft's Windows XP, which had 55 vulnerabilities in 2006 and just 19 in the first six months of 2007. The recently-released Windows Vista, meanwhile, braved 19 vulnerabilities in 2007.

"Apple has better commercials, but the Mac is no harder to break into than a Windows PC," said Gartner security analyst John Pescatore. The analyst added that most IT departments can automatically patch large numbers of PCs simultaneously, while Macs usually require updates one at a time, according to Infoworld."

Source: MacNN

Malware On Mac OS X - Viruses, Trojans, and Worms - Forensics Lab

[Veazer]

Great cross counsel but no cigar.

Y'all gonna have to excuse me while I go pour myself a virtaul Jack

BR>Jack

Then by all means, give us an example of a virus that will affect Macs and Windows system. I'm sure it could occur someday, but i've only heard of a few cross platform viruses of significance and they were Linux/Win32 and Symbian/Win32.