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Norton won't install on my OSX
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Hello friends,
I am struggling... I'm new to OSX (10.3) and am trying to install Norton Anti-Virus (8.04). Everytime I get into the install, it stops half way, and states the following:
"Error Creating Folder. 1008:9,-5000 Access denied error"
then
"You do not have enough privlidges for this installation"
Like I said, I'm new to OSX and I'm not sure what's wrong. I have "administrator" rights and have to sign in before the installer starts...
Someone help!
Thanks
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Try using the disk utility program to repair permissions. If all else fails, you could enable the root user and log in as root.
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ACSA 10.4/10.3, ACTC 10.3, ACHDS 10.3
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This is probably a good thing. This is your computer's way of telling you, "please don't install any Norton software on me!"
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Really-- you should consider yourself lucky. The only viruses that affect OS X are Microsoft macro viruses, which are basically e-mail scripts that will only execute in Entourage or Outlook, and there's a pref in those you can turn off so that the macros don't automatically execute.
NAV is more troublesome with all it's spurious warnings than any virus you can get. Keep your firewall on, and use Mail or Eudora, and there's really not much to worry about. The two or three "buffer overflow" exploits have so far been theoretical-- none of them have actually been taken advantage of by hackers before they were patched by Apple.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Norton == 
This, incidentally, is also a likely reason why their installer doesn't work properly.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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The Root thing worked.
To be honest, I've never worried about viruses on Mac's. I'm getting DSL from Qwest and the *require* me to have virus protection on my computer... NAV is a free download from my school....
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Join Date: May 2002
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just hope NAV 8 works on Panther. i dont think its tested to work on it (but i dont think Symantec tests anything anymore actually). NAV 9 is pretty solid however...as is Virex from .Mac. NAV 8 is pretty much useless...as is Virex since they cant scan for PC viruses. NAV 9 can. not exactly a huge amount of virus and trojans going around for MacOS X 
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