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Windows on Mac (Virus?)

  • 16-03-2011 11:30PM
    #1
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭


    Hope this is not a stupid question :confused:
    If I use bootcamp to install Windows on My Mac, will this make it vulnerable to windows viruses?
    Can it damage my Mac?


Comments

  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,713 ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Windows viruses won't affect Mac OS X.


  • #3
    Westie123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭Westie123


    A virus will only affect the windows bootcamp partition. I have installed antivirus (Avast), Ad-Aware and spyware detection software, just in case. These are all free (do a web search). In the worst case, you can reinstall Bootcamp. A clean clone of bootcamp would be handy here.


  • #4
    rivalius13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭rivalius13


    Microsoft Security Essentials is what you want for anti-virus. I've heard a bunch of bad things from windows users about free anti-virus programmes that used to be great (AVG is the one name that keeps coming up as turning to poop).


  • #5
    Germag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭Germag


    I've used Avg with Xp and bootcamp eversince it came out. I have had only 1 virus in all this time and AVG got rid of it for me. I only use Windows for online poker and I never us Outlook express or Explorer. (The virus came in on a Paddy Power poker calculater). As a long time Mac user I hope that this continues to be the story.


  • #6
    NullZer0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭NullZer0


    Another vote for Microsoft Security Essentials.
    AVG has become bloated and slower in the new release.


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