I am currently operating OS 10.4.11. When I download antivirus definitions for Power PC Intell and go to install it, the system says you cannot do this but must use MavMintel defintions updater? What is this??????
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I am currently operating OS 10.4.11. When I download antivirus definitions for Power PC Intell and go to install it, the system says you cannot do this but must use MavMintel defintions updater? What is this??????
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Sounds like somebody downloaded a suspicious file or two. Many problems people encounter with OS X have some link to the user in the end...
Anti-virus definitions? Well. Like you said, this should be good.
-BMF
Please help i have the same problem i am trying to download the Norton ANtiVirus software but when I try to download it tells me i have to use the MavMIntel definitions updater. what do i do??????
My MAC version is MAC OS X 10.5.2
Uninstall Norton Anti-Virus and live without it.
If you really feel the need for AV software, download and install CLAMX AV from Here
Given that there are no viruses out there that act against OS X, ClamXAV is as effective as Norton (that well known resource hog).
Did I mention that it is Free? Use the money you pay to Symantec every year for an empty Mac virus definitions list, to buy something you really need.
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It may be a stretch, but perhaps you will consider this question on a related ClamXav installation issue. i discovered that my old original ClamAv was no longer functioning. And so i decided i needed to take the download of the new and improved ClamXav version 1.1
In leading up to that, i attempted to open the .zip file that came, which performs (if i could get IT to work) a de-install. My iMac is still limping along with 10.3.9 OS because it is still the once great but now obsolescent iMac PPC3 SL. The de-install pkg. takes me to a linux prompt which then asks for my password but informs me that the correct one i have just entered is in-correct. i have made several password changes since the original installation of the 10.3.0
Is it possible the prompt wants, not the administrator password, but the "user" password or perhaps one of the earlier passwords? Admin or user passwords? This appears to be a Sudo and Linux issue to my un-trained eye. And as always i don't understand the acronyms of geekspeak that the code writers deem it essential to use without a lay person's explanation of them to make them more user friendly. Hoping you can advise, Peter, your obedient servent and accolyte.
I'm not sure what password the uninstaller is looking for but it would seem logical that it would be referring to the Admin password that you use to install other software, like software updates.
Changing the Admin password is not unusual so I would not expect the uninstaller to be asking for an "old" one.
Where did this .zip come from? Was it from the original installation of Clamx or was it contained in the new version?
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Sorry i can't answer that one definitively. i initially attempted to delete all the bits of the original installation using the find command. And while doing this i noticed that an uninstaller existed in the "shared" file. i assumed it came with the "older" clamAv program that was not working. i continued to double-click all the clam references i found and move them to the waste basket for deletion. When this was accomplished and files deleted. i then tried using this un-installer to see if IT would be able to find and delete any additional bits and got the aforementioned non-result. At the present the newer clamXav appears to be working with the exception that it always displays an unable to save preferences message when i attempt to save preferences and launch. i would love to again delete the lot using the un-installer and start over afresh but as i said it just insists that i have given the wrong password at the Linux command line prompt. Thank you for your interest.
are trying to run the new version of ClamxAV directly from the .DMG file that you downloaded.
Expanding the .dmg file will create a hard drive looking icon on the desktop (usually) which is an image of the original disk.
This disk is read only, which may account for the inability to save the preferences.
If the above is the case, drag the contents of the Hard Drive icon into the Utilities folder and try running it from there. You may have to create a new folder in there first.
Once you have done that, you can put the HD icon, the CLAMXAV one, into the trash.
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Thank you. That sounds worth a try. Mullng my options as i waited to hear back from you, i tried using both passwords: first my admin and then as the "sorry" prompt message displayed, then typed in the user password at the Linux prompt. This at least met with a "success" message, and cleared out all the older clam files with the (notable?) exception of one "clamd" file. At a loss, i next displayed and then moved THAT clamd folder into trash using the finder command-f command and deleted it. Then i began a new scan with the subsequent next new download of clamXav. This time it caught one more phish attempt with a number (no name) [A2F6486Ad01] hidden deep in the bowels of a usr Library sub folder. i have noted that sometimes in another software applications, an error MESSAGE is the only actual error extant. One example, (VLC) comes to mind here, but also Film Factory. Each announces on closure that in my closing them there was an unexpected error and that THEY too each had a problem "unable to save" and yet the data is not lost to me. It loads back in on next re-opening (albeit slowly). Armed with this new idea of yours: using the utils section from which to scan, perhaps i will get the "unable to save messages" to stop. However the first clamXav install menu displays a graphic icon which has an arrow pointing from it to an apps icon, as though THIS is what one should drag to and i do that. i always trash the hard drive icon sitting on the desktop along with its .dmg after finishing with the installation. As you correctly note, it is possible to run scans from there using the hard drive icon. i HAVE done it both ways with the same result.
One additional thought, after closing and then re-opening, the errant clamXav preference buttons that i had chosen ARE still checked, does this not imply or suggest that they WERE indeed saved despite the error message to the contrary ?
Just finished downloading another 'nother 'nother version of clamXav (for panther 1.1.0 e92 this time into utilities, after first deleting the old version and (once again) "unable to save"
drat!
As it turned out, the reason the "unable to save" error message would always display was because i was a "standard user" and did not have Admin privileges and as such i was not authorized to change prefs in clamXav. All it took to fix was to log out as user and log back in as Admin. Once there, going to Sys Prefs > accounts, i then changed the status of that user account from standard to Admin. Then opening the clamXav app. i made the desired changes, scheduling and file sentry preferences were saved, swimmingly, no more error message. The final step was to revoke my Admin status, which i could do from here because i was an Admin until i demoted myself back to standard user and bada bing ! Joy. The markallen clamXav help forums held the clue i needed to sort it all out. Kudos to them.