Sunday, February 11, 2007

Perils in Parallels?

Earlier this week Security Fix managed to install a new copy of Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate on top of Apple's Mac OS X operating system running on a Macbook Pro. I did this using Parallels, a powerful, free "virtual machine" program that lets users run two or more operating systems side by side at the same time.

When I went to behold the Frankenstein I'd created, I literally gasped when I realized that Vista now had complete access to read, write, or destroy files on my Mac's hard drive. The guest operating system -- in this case Vista -- has almost full run of the data on the underlying hard drive (the critical system files appear to be guarded).

Read the article HERE.

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