Re: Firewall and AV questions on VPC 7 for Mac

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"E. Telly Kelly" <E_Telly_Kelly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Before I get to the question(s), let me first apologize to anyone who
is offended by cross-posting - I found the generic VPC list and posted
there, not realizing that there was a separate VPC-Mac list. My bad!
Secondly, I should probably apologize for the long-windedness of this
post, but I try to give as complete information as I can when calling
for help.

System setup:

VPC7 running Windows 2000 under OS 10.4.7 on a G5 Mac on a
(presumably) firewalled Windows Server network.

The VM is using shared networking. I'm getting an error message that,
although virtual switching is configured correctly, the guest can't use
it - couched in proper error-messagese, of course. I haven't had the
time to track down where the problem lies, and it either may not matter
at all, or it may be crucial, as you'll see below.

Having read various and sundry articles (on the other list, *sigh*...),
it appears that I should apply firewall and AV software to the VM as I
would for any physical machine - although budgets (both my
personal one and that of the municipal governmrnt for which I work)
being what they are, I've been looking at freeware options.

I've tried Comodo on the system and iit seems to faiil ungracefully
every time that the VM starts up. Does anyone have any
experience with freeware fiewalls in the environment described that
they could recommend?

As to AV software, while I haven't checked with the MIS folks at work
regarding the office network's AV software, I'm assuming that the VM -
using the Mac's IP address and *NOT* automatiically identifying itself
as a Win2K machine on thr city's network when starting up - would not be
getting the latest automatic AV updates from the city's servers at
startup, the way that the other PCs on the network do. So, if that's
the case, then (as I noted above) it could be that I *NEED* to figure
out how to get the virtual switch to work, and get a separate IP
address for the VM, so that the city's servers can see it in order to
update the AV definitions. (Are they "pushed" when a computer
authenticates on the network, or are they "pulled" by a login
script...? Yet another thing that I don't know and probably need to
find out from MIS... ["Dammit, Jim; I'm a Graphic Artist, not a
SysAdmin!"])

So it's possible that I can piggyback on the city's AV setup but, if
not, does anyone have any free AV recommendations (easy to set up and
with sufficiently frequent virus signature updates) that they could
recommend?

Any help here is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!


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