(seems to be answered) about security of parallels
I had sent this to parallels support, but after a couple of back and forths, their support engineer cannot or will not understand what I am talking about. Posting here to get other comments, perhaps I am just being unclear. See security question marked with double stars **.
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Every time I update Parallels ( and I do test the betas.. ) I have to hit Custom install on parallels tools to UN SELECT items I do not like, and never want to be asked about:
- shared profile
- shared internet apps
- shared home dir..
I understand that some folks want convergence of their environment. That`s fine. But, I don`t want Windows to ever be able to access more than I give it permission to do.
I must have missed a checkbox, because I was very unhappy to see my home drive mounted under windows.
Please, give me a checkbox somewhere that will NOT ever ask again for access to anything outside of the shared folders I have given to Windows. Security was set to Medium-High.
If Shared Profiles were turned on in parallels tools, would it override the checkbox that says that the Home dir was not selected? I`m concerned that the Windows side is able to override.. ** could a malicious program on Win cause access to Home to happen by patching parallels tools?
..I have been a pre-order user since before the Mac version was final.
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I had filed a comment (via the problem reporter) on the UI of the Parallels tools before and had not heard back.
Last edited: Sep 18, 2007