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louiegalvan · Jan 25, 2006, 11:17 AM

OK I have installed this and it works great, the only thing is I can not disable the Auto Protect function that starts up on boot up. I've read articles and have seen screenshots saying that you can disable this using the Norton Antiv Virus preference pane but I cant find that anywhere. Does anyone have any clue how to disable this? It's very annoying! Thanks

Louie

Goldfinger · Jan 25, 2006, 11:25 AM

Short answer: trash Norton AV ASAP. It's a huge cause of problems on the Mac and there are zero know viruses for the Mac.

Long answer: somebody else will give you that.

louiegalvan · Jan 25, 2006, 11:59 AM

Can you elaborate what problems it causes? I work at a University and they want this for a false sense of security. I dont like it either. Thanks anyway.. Anyone have a clue on how to disable Auto Protect?

cybergoober · Jan 25, 2006, 12:23 PM

Your university wants you to use it to prevent you potentially sending infected files to Windows users, not for some false sense of security.

As to how to disable Auto-Protect, I'm not sure. Does the "Disable Auto-Protect" item under the SAV menu item not work?

analogika · Jan 25, 2006, 12:36 PM

NAV makes Macs less secure.

CharlesS · Jan 25, 2006, 12:48 PM

You could try using ClamAV instead of Norton if they require you to have some sort of antivirus.

ghporter · Jan 25, 2006, 09:14 PM

Stick with Symantec 10 and dump anything else. So far Symantec AV for Mac has been fantastic for me-and I'm speaking from an industrial computer security background here. On the other hand, as you can see from other people's posts, the Norton product was, well, bad.

And cybergoober is right about why the university wants you to use this product-to keep you from accidentally passing something bad to a Windows user. But why disable Auto Protect? I have seen absolutely no problems with it on our iBook running Panther.

Maflynn · Jan 26, 2006, 09:12 AM

A lot of companies now require any computer to be logged into their network to have an uptodate anti-virus application. The university isn't out of line in making sure that it protects their network. Its a lot harder to fix a virus problem after its spread then to make sure everyone uses safe computing practices including Macs.

My company on a couple of occasions had to shut their network down completly (all work came to a halt) and took 2 - 3 days to disenfect the system and client computers. They now are zealous at making sure that any computer that logs into the network has virus protection. Can you blame them, they lost a bundle because for 2 days no work was occuring. The same thing can happen to the university.

Mike

cybergoober · Jan 26, 2006, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Maflynn

My company on a couple of occasions had to shut their network down completly (all work came to a halt) and took 2 - 3 days to disenfect the system and client computers. They now are zealous at making sure that any computer that logs into the network has virus protection. Can you blame them, they lost a bundle because for 2 days no work was occuring. The same thing can happen to the university.

Mike

That happened where I work (NASA Langley Research Center) a few years ago. Had to shut the network down for like two or three days. We're now in the process of subnetting the entire network so that each building is its own subnet. That way if there's a network security event in one building it can be contained there.