[mikebore]

I have installed Virusbarrier X5 on my MacBook Pro today, and tried to do the first full scan. The first time it hung at 94% scanning a file called "BCD" . There was no option to skip. Everything appeared to be running but it just stayed there for an hour before I quit the prog.

Thinking it might be hung on my Boot Camp partition or Parallels VM, I put those in my Trusted zone and tried again. Same thing, stuck at 74% on "BCD".

Thanks for any help.

Mike

[besson3c]

If you are looking to quarantine PC viruses you get in email (there are really no Mac viruses), why don't you just have this product scan your email folder? If it doesn't work, I'd return it and just use ClamAV, which is free.

[mikebore]

Thanks, I have been using ClamXav for the last few years and have never liked it. The latest version has resisted all efforts to make Watch Folders work on my email, so in frustration I bought Virusbarrier, which I used way back and liked.

[mikebore]

For the record, I have found the cause of my problem, but not the solution.

Virusbarrier is getting stuck on a Winclone backup image of my Vista Boot Camp partition. There is no way to exclude folders or files from a demand scan, so Virusbarrier is basically unable to scan my computer. That plus the boy racer UI and that there are up fourteen separate processes running in Activity Monitor, means it is off for now. The uninstaller left a lot of stuff behind.

[is not]

You can exclude folders with Virex. You need to edit the file VShieldExclude.txt that looks like this:


# Use the exclusion list to stop specific files and folders being scanned.
# For example:
#
# /Users/Ameen/Music/
# /Users/Smitha/Desktop/Chief-Rock-Face.jpg
# /Applications/
#
# Excludes the Music folder in the user Ameen's folder
# Excludes the file "Chief-Rock-Face.jpg" that is on user Smitha's desktop and
# Excludes the entire Applications folder from being scanned for viruses.
#
# Lines that begin with the '#' character are ignored.
/dev
/private/tmp
/private/var/tmp


and add your own folders as /harddisk/users/myuser/myfoldertoexclude

[mikebore]

Originally Posted by is not 

You can exclude folders with Virex. You need to edit the file VShieldExclude.txt that looks like this:

The program I am using and having the problem with is Virusbarrier (Intego) not Virex (McAfee). If you know of a way of doing the same with Virusbarrier that would be great.

I thought Virex had died for Macs, which version are you using?

Thanks

Mike