If I use Bootcamp, can I get Windows viruses on my Mac?
I am using Mac OS X 10.8.3. I am about to install Windows 7 on my iMac with Bootcamp. Can I get Windows virus on my Mac because of Bootcamp?
If you do, it'll only affect the Windows partition of your hard drive.
If you feel really worried, I'd suggest running Windows in a virtual machine using Parallels or similar. You can set things up so that there's no access to your Mac from the virtual machine and, if the VM gets a problem, you can just delete it.
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Penguin555 wrote:
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Extremely irritating.
JJon Fritz II wrote:
So when you right-click an .html file and choose Open With, what are you seeing?
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>Is the check box for "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checked?
Jon Fritz II wrote:
So when you right-click an .html file and choose Open With, what are you seeing?
Is the check box for "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checked?
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> Is the check box for "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checked?
Yes.
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global current_track
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end tell
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end if
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Thanks for your help. Any suggestions are appreciated!well, for information's sake, the cleaned-up script looks like this:
(* Begin user defined settings ************)
property campfire_token : "123456" (* Your Campfire API authentication token *)
property airplay_device : "Apple TV" (* The name of your AirPlay device *)
property campfire_room : "https://yourorg.campfirenow.com/room/123456/speak.xml" (* The Campfire room you'd like to post to *)
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on run
(* init at runtime*)
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set current_device to ""
set last_track to ""
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set visible of front browser window to true
set current_device to my getDevice()
if current_device as string is not equal to airplay_device & " AirPlay" then return
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set track_info to my mungeText(track_info, "'", "'") -- Replace apostrophes
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do shell script (shellCommand as string)
(*display dialog shellCommand*)
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return
end tell
end idle
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end tell
end tell
end getDevice
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set itxt to text items of itxt
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set AppleScript's text item delimiters to rtxt
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end mungeText
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