Another month, another Windows critical vulnerability. Crap, another area that the Mac is behind Windows in software availability–current exploits.
Hackers have created hundreds of web pages that use the bug to take over vulnerable computers.
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Sandy Smith 
Doesn’t Boot Camp keep your Windows instance on its own partition, completely separate from OS X?
So if your Windows instance gets hacked, worst case is that you have to wipe the partition and reinstall. Shouldn’t impact your OS X use any. I can’t imagine a scenario in a dual-boot system where someone could exploit a hole in Windows to access OS X (which is presumably where you’d keep most of your personal data)….
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Yeah, it’s just a reminder of the headaches that will come with it that Mac users currently don’t really have to think about.
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