<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The latest Virusscan installer from the MIT downloads page should address this.<div><br></div><div>If not, you can fix it manually. Just <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(84, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">delete the file: </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mcafee.virusscan.vshieldepointerface.plist</font></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">Reboot and it will recreate the preferences properly.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">With regards to if it's needed. Well, there are no known virii to macs yet, however, if you receive one and do not detect and clean it, you'll be acting as a carrier if you send that file along to the next person who may be a PC user. The mac wont contract the virus, but will hold onto it in it's original form and stay attached to whatever file it was when you received it.</span></div><div><br></div><div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; 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"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#996633">Please note: MIT IS&T staff will NEVER ask you for your password, nor any email requesting your password information. Please ignore any email messages that claim to require you to provide such information.</font></span></font></div></i></b></div></i></b></font></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Felix Kreisel wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div>I have seen the following problem on one Mac G4 running 10.4 and one G5 running 10.5 and both trying to run Virusscan 8.6. The VS on G4 was running amok on the system, starting numerous <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; line-height: 16px; ">VShieldScanner processes. It brought the whole system to its knees and it was impossible to do anything else. We needed to start up from a CD, start the root process and uninstall VirusScan.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">On the G5 (my own), VirusScan does spin up a few VShieldScanner processes, but the dual 2GHz system is able to keep running despite them. These processes become fairly passive after a while.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 16px;">Do we need VirusScan? Do we need any anti-virus software at all on a Mac? Am I seeing a bug in VirusScan? Is there a fix?</span></font></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Felix Kreisel - Systems Engineer,</div><div>Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT</div><div>617-253-8625 <a href="mailto:fjk@mit.edu">fjk@mit.edu</a></div></div></div></span> </div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Macpartners mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Macpartners@mit.edu">Macpartners@mit.edu</a><br>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/macpartners<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>