Can a Mac get infected via Boot Camp?

Question

Hi. I was bored and just started wondering about something interesting. Can a Mac get PC Viruses when Dual-Booting Windows (via Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop or VM Ware Fusion)?

Thanks,
Killa K

Answer 1

Boot camp creates its own partition aside from Mac which means the Mac files are stored completely away from the Windows, this means that if you got a virus that deletes files, it would only effect the Windows Boot Camp, however if the virus was designed to wreck hardware, such as to make your Hard Drive not work, then this could have effects on your Mac files as the Windows and Mac partitions because they both use the same Hard drive to store files.



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Answer 2

I thought about this too. But because of the UNIX inside,even it boot camp it can't get viruses.



I thought it could at first because the whole reason for Macs not being able to get viruses was because of them not being able to read the files, and boot camp allows you to read windows only files, so I thought the same thing. But apparently the UNIX still works to fight against the viruses.

Answer 3

Any Mac that host a working laptop or laptop element can get contaminated purely interior the laptop element. Macs are encoded in yet in any different case then desktops and the Virus creators purely script their viscous infections for desktops.

Answer 4

It is possible via bootcamp, but for parallels and VMware absolutely not. Those are virtual machine programs, and the best part about those is that you can do whatever you want within VM without harming your physical OS.