Every single program quits unexpectedly !

[ddd8896]

and my time/battery life/and spotlight disappeared. It happened when I installed McAffee for Mac provided by my school ITS. As soon as it finished installing about 3 popups come up saying something about fonts. I am new to the whole mac thing but this is really aggravating. Please Help !

 

[kdoug]

and my time/battery life/and spotlight disappeared. It happened when I installed McAffee for Mac provided by my school ITS. As soon as it finished installing about 3 popups come up saying something about fonts. I am new to the whole mac thing but this is really aggravating. Please Help !

Get rid of McAffree.

 

[S.B.G]

Right. You don't need McAfee or any anti-virus program. There are no viruses for OS/X in the wild to worry about.

 

[ddd8896]

I would but I cant get rid of mcaffee. everything quits unexpectedly. I cant even open the finder or trashcan or any folder at that

 

[S.B.G]

Do a restore from Time Machine to a date prior to putting McAfee on it. You do use Time Machine right?

 

[ddd8896]

no. I was going to set it up in a few weeks when I get a LaCie Rugged

 

[S.B.G]

You may have to just format and do a fresh install.

 

[ddd8896]

how do I format ?

 

[S.B.G]

Insert your OS/X disc and restart. From the menu at the top, choose Disk Utility and then 'Erase' your boot drive, then quit that and go back to the install screen and install OS/X.

Formatting & Partitioning a Hard Drive in OS X - Tiger and Leopard

 

[ddd8896]

I have Snow Leopard. Will this mess up my Windows 7 Partition ?

 

[S.B.G]

Did you do Windows 7 in Boot Camp or in a VM?

If Boot Camp, just make sure you don't format that partition when using Disk Utility and you should be fine. If you did it in a VM, you will lose it.

 

[ddd8896]

I used boot camp but I tried to open disk utilities and it quit unexpectedly.

 

[S.B.G]

I used boot camp but I tried to open disk utilities and it quit unexpectedly.

You can't do it from within OS/X. Insert the disc and run it from there.

 

[ddd8896]

ohh. ok thanks for your help. My OSX disk is back at school in new york. I will try that and see if it works. If not I can probably just bring it to the ITS helpdesk. Thanks again

 

[aimbdd]

and my time/battery life/and spotlight disappeared. It happened when I installed McAffee for Mac provided by my school ITS. As soon as it finished installing about 3 popups come up saying something about fonts. I am new to the whole mac thing but this is really aggravating. Please Help !

It sounds like McAffee ate an important system file 😉 got to love virus scanners.

 

[CW Jones]

I had the same issue. My schools IT site said to put Macfee on it and it would be fine but it ending up screwing up big time and making it kernel panic like crazy. It seems Macfee doesn't really know how to play nice with OSX. Get it off ASAP, if your school says you have to have it, take your computer to IT and tell them to explain why its happening (they wont be able to lol).

 

[S.B.G]

I had the same issue. My schools IT site said to put Macfee on it and it would be fine but it ending up screwing up big time and making it kernel panic like crazy. It seems Macfee doesn't really know how to play nice with OSX. Get it off ASAP, if your school says you have to have it, take your computer to IT and tell them to explain why its happening (they wont be able to lol).

Sounds like your school IT department doesn't know what they're doing by forcing Mac users to use anti-virus. If they knew anything about Mac, they wouldn't make you do that. They should only force Windows users to use anti-virus software.

It's probably a policy of theirs, but it should be amended for Macs.

 

[CW Jones]

Sounds like your school IT department doesn't know what they're doing by forcing Mac users to use anti-virus. If they knew anything about Mac, they wouldn't make you do that. They should only force Windows users to use anti-virus software.

It's probably a policy of theirs, but it should be amended for Macs.

no no no My school doesn't make me, but I do know some colleges do make you have anti-virus software as well as some of their other BS stuff. My school doesn't care, I just figured I needed it or it would be good to have when I first got my Mac over a year ago.

 

[VolcomLegend]

Sounds like your school IT department doesn't know what they're doing by forcing Mac users to use anti-virus. If they knew anything about Mac, they wouldn't make you do that. They should only force Windows users to use anti-virus software.

It's probably a policy of theirs, but it should be amended for Macs.

The worry isn't that the Mac will get a virus but that it may transmit, unwillingly, a Windows virus by being on the same network or by using a USB drive, etc.