Odds & Ends: NAV Memory Leak; iTools Mail Filtering;

Quark 5.01 Installation Issues

NAV memory leak Fred Trinkoff reports a memory leak in Norton AntiVirus 8.0.2 for Mac OS X.

"It seems that the process NortonAutoProtect will gain 256 K chunks of memory in it's 'VSIZE' according to "top -uw," approximately once a minute. On my machine at home the process is up to 700 MB after about 6 days . On a user's machine it had reached over 1 GB in about 3 days."

The leak only seems to occur when Classic is running (and not sleeping), so keeping Classic off or setting it to a quick sleep helps slow the memory usage growth.

iTools mail filtering In regard to yesterday's item about iTools blocking legitimate e-mail, Tom Olin writes

"The crux of the problem is that Apple is going to filter all mac.com addresses whether their owners want it or not, and, most importantly, they do not provide any mechanism for checking filtered mail for false positives. While I appreciate Apple's attempts to combat spam, the simple fact remains that no filtering method is perfect, and there will be false positives."

Quark 5.01 installation issues Readers report problems getting the Quark Xpress 5.01 updater to properly apply itself. Carrick Patterson writes

"I can't get the Quark 5.01 updater to work on a G4 running 9.2.1. The updater starts running, then says it can't find a Quark to update. Of course, the program is there."

Users posting on Quark's message boards claim to have had success changing the name of the enclosing folder for the program to QuarkXpress (no space) and making certain the program's name has a trademark symbol.

UPDATE: Scott Monroe notes another potential method for getting the 5.01 updater to work:

"After reinstalling the software running the update without success, I deleted all alias files. I then ran the update successfully. Apparently when the update is looking for a copy of Quark to modify, it finds the alias first and the update will error."