by Stephanie McLoughlin

Test Center Tracker: Parallels security alert and laptop raves

analysis
Feb 13, 20071 min

Heads-up on Parallels: Kevin Railsback, InfoWorld's IT director, is spreading the word about a potential vulnerability in the Parallels beta. (For more about this Windows-to-OSX connection technology, check out our review of Parallels.) According to Railsback, "a recent addition to the Parallels Beta, called Global Sharing, can open up OS X itself to possible attacks from the Windows side." Get more details here

Heads-up on Parallels: Kevin Railsback, InfoWorld’s IT director, is spreading the word about a potential vulnerability in the Parallels beta. (For more about this Windows-to-OSX connection technology, check out our review of Parallels.) According to Railsback, “a recent addition to the Parallels Beta, called Global Sharing, can open up OS X itself to possible attacks from the Windows side.” Get more details here and learn how to close the hole.

One for the road: Oliver Rist got his hands on a Gateway M255-E SB laptop, and he doesn’t want to give it back. His review on the SMB IT blog says that this little notebook took a licking and kept on ticking, handling everything Oliver threw at it. Sounds like Gateway’s going to have a hard time prying this one out of his hot little hands…

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