[Macpartners] VirusScan processes

[Felix Kreisel]

Hi,
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 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.
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.

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?


Felix Kreisel - Systems Engineer,
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT
617-253-8625   fjk at mit.edu

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