I had posted this on the Mac side and they thought it was better here. I just loaded Bootcamp and installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my new Macbook Pro..loaded Norton AV 2011 for Windows and wanted to check to see if I should exclude my Macintosh drive? Also, any other file exclusions on the Windows side would be appreciated.
Leo
Though your question concerns the Mac OS X in one sense (the Bootcamp VM), it probably needs to be addressed by the Windows NAV folks. I've asked around on the Mac team and no one is sure about how the Windows product interacts with Bootcamp, so you may want to ask on the Windows forum.
Sorry used IE9 and it did not post. Thanks for the update..I will post in the Windows area. Leo
I had posted this on the Mac side and they thought it was better here. I just loaded Bootcamp and installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my new Macbook Pro..loaded Norton AV 2011 for Windows and wanted to check to see if I should exclude my Macintosh drive? Also, any other file exclusions on the Windows side would be appreciated.
Leo
You can access the files on the Mac partition from the Windows side..that is why I am concerned about exclusions. I thought there would be a Norton expert who could weigh in on this..
Leo
To tell you the truth, I thought there would be a Mac expert that could help you. The only think I know about Macs is that my sister uses them.
You will need to know how your able to access the Mac partitions and what is providing the support.
From this link here, it says this:
(quote)Apple has released read-only HFS+ drivers for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 in Boot Camp in Mac OS X 10.6. This means users on these systems can read data on the HFS+ drive, but not write to them. Microsoft has created an HFS+ driver for the Xbox 360 mainly for the purpose of reading HFS+ formatted iPods. (end quote)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus
If you have read-only access to the Mac files then you might as well exclude those drives because they could not become infected from a windows virus and they couldn't be cleaned anyway.
If you have the commercial product that allows read and write access then I can't give you an answer.
It would depend on how the file driver works. For instance, I can use Norton to scan encrypted partitions because the program I use provides "on the fly" encryption / decryption on a low level that allows Norton to work "on top" of the decryption. From Nortons point of view they become normal files.
If nobody else can help you I would suggest doing a few tests with the eicar test virus and seeing if it can be detected and cleaned when it's on one of the Mac partitions.
Best of luck,
Dave