#WINDOWS EMULATOR FOR MAC MAVERICKS MAC OS#
I believe Firefox runs on the MAC OS using WINE or some other emulator. This all started after Firefox was locked up by the ransom web page virus. Does anyone know how much memory the kernel normally uses? I took it to the genius bar at the apple store and the technician told me there was nothing he could do. Good thing I have a hard drive (which makes noise when in use) or I would have never noticed anything. To expand on my MAC mini infection the malware infected my kernel which was using 1.6GB of memory and constantly scanning my hard disk. The program was called YAST and I was hoping Apple had a similar installer application. You could even roll the kernel back to the previous revision. I ran SUSE Linux for several years and it was very simple to remove or reinstall any software. But that's not the same as infecting OS X. For example, if you allowed the Windows virtual machine to have write access to one or more OS X folders, when Windows is running the virus could erase or damage files in those folders.
There are ways that a Windows virus can trash parts of a Mac disk when run from a Windows virtual machine.
#WINDOWS EMULATOR FOR MAC MAVERICKS INSTALL#
A Windows virus can certainly infect a virtual machine, but if it is written for Windows it cannot run on OS X and therefore cannot install itself into and damage OS X. Warning to all MAC users running emulation software on your PC will probably result in being infected if you surf the web.Īgain technically that is not completely correct. I don't know of an official list, but some of the most common ones are Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion, VirtualBox, and Crossover. Because the processor is now native, it's referred to as "virtualization." Just nitpicking here, but technically Macs no longer run "emulation" programs ever since Macs went Intel. Use the application's official uninstaller whenever possible! The reason is that virtualizers often install kernel extensions and other files in the various system support folders that you won't easily find just by looking around. When you remove Windows virtualization applications, be sure you don't do it manually (by throwing stuff in the Trash).