At Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:01:55 -0500 David Spound <dspound at mac.com> wrote: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > > > This botnet discussion reminds me that I need to install some protective > software for my new Windows XP installation running (very nicely) in > Parallels on my MacBook Pro. > > I am using Windows mainly for web access. I am trying to use Firefox as Why use MS-Windows for web access? Firefox (and Safari) are available under MacOSX. > much as possible. No Microsoft Office or Outlook for now, although I do rule > out a future purchase of the new version of Office. I might occasionally > access email through a web browser. I use safe computing techniques (no > clicking on ads, no opening attachments that I am not certain about, etc.) > > Please tell me what I need to buy in order to protect this installation of > Windows from viruses, spyware, etc. I have read some negative reviews of > Norton Antivirus. The only real reason to bother with running a MS-Windows emulator or virtual machine would be to run MS-Windows only applications. Web surfing, office stuff (word processing, etc.), E-Mail, etc. can and should be done with native MacOSX applications. The *best* way to protect your Windows XP installation running in Parallels would be to completely disable any network access, except a virtual 'LAN' connection to the MacOSX host system (I'm assuming that Parallels works much like VMWare and creates a 'virtual' network card between the virtual machine and the host system and uses that to allow the virtual machine 'talk' to the host system). > > Thanks, > > David > > ++++++++++ > > David Spound, M.Ed. > > Valley Mindfulness > Programs for Stress Reduction, Health and Well-Being > > (413) 219-0654 > david at valleymindfulness.com > http://www.valleymindfulness.com > > A Taste of Mindfulness: > * Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 6:00Â8:00 pm > > Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: > * January 23ÂMarch 13, 2007 (Tuesday evenings) > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk