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To: Dave Budde who wrote (54849)	7/21/2006 1:03:28 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213172

>>And by the way...just out of curiosity... If one has XP on a mac because they need it for one or two programs how is that any more secure than a standard windows install?<< Dave - Well, the whole XP disk image can be backed up and easily restored, for one thing. So if XP gets compromised, you don't have to reinstall the operating system AND every application you use with it. You just restore the backup copy (or rename it if it's already on your drive) and go. By the way, does Vista offer anything like the excellent User Migration Tool that Apple has? If you've gotten a new Windows machine, can you boot your old one into Target Disk Mode, have all your files and applications automatically copied over to your new machine, and be up and running inside of an hour with all your apps, settings and files intact? Nope. But you can do that with a Mac. That's a huge difference. - Allen

To: Dave Budde who wrote (54849)	7/21/2006 1:06:54 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213172

If one has XP on a mac because they need it for one or two programs how is that any more secure than a standard windows install? That's easy. First it's behind the Mac firewall by default, if you're using Parallels. Secondly, you don't run an Intenet program (browser or mail) until after you have first installed an antivirus program, such as McAfee, that you bought at a store (or downloaded on the Mac side). Then you fire up IE and start the massive XP updates (even with SP2). McAfee, or whatever, will automatically begin its updates. I haven't had any hits yet, but then I do not use email on the XP side and I rarely turn on the browser (usually FireFox when I do).