[Elecraft] Running Windows on a MAC

[David Gilbert]

I would heavily discount anything that person told you in the future 
because they clearly don't understand how that works.   When you run 
Windows on a MAC you are doing it in a separate partition of the hard 
drive and the Mac partition doesn't interface with it ... certainly not 
to the point of being able to police whatever goes on there.  Whether or 
not you need antivirus software on the Windows partition is purely a 
function of what you will be doing there.  If it never runs anything 
other than trusted software and never talks to the outside world (no 
internet access, no incoming files, etc) I doubt you would need it ... 
but for that reason, not the one your friend gave you.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 5/22/2012 11:23 AM, EMD wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I have had the need to run windows on my MAC.  I'm using Parallels
> to run Windows 7.  I have been told that I do not need Anti Virus software
> on the windows side since I already use it on the MAC side.  Does anyone
> have any thoughts on this?
>
> 73, Ed
> K3ENV
>