You are currently browsing the archives for the antivirus category.French magazine MacGeneration is reporting that the brand new version of the Mac OS X operating system (Snow Leopard) due to be released on Friday will contain built-in anti-virus functionality. Posted in antivirus, Kapersky, Mac, MacBook Pro, Parallels | No Comments » Or if that doesn’t work, try updating Parallels Desktop and trying again (that is what I ended up having to do). Tip: on doing that, nothing seemed to happen for quite a while, so maybe worth leaving it for say 15 minutes to see if a confirmation “Removal succeeded” message pops up.Instead I had to run Parallels Desktop (no need for any of the VMs to be running, just the “shell”), then use menu option: . Since my copy of Kaspersky (for Mac) was installed as part of Parallels Desktop 8, it did not come with its own installer/uninstaller package.My experience indeed confirmed that – once I removed Kaspersky (for Mac), the Mac OS shutdown behaved normally once again. Web-search suggested maybe Kapersky Anti-Virus 2011 (for Mac) might be responsible. This is a nuisance, and (naively at least) raises concerns of some more significant kind of damage occurring some day… Typically these are files I (directly or indirectly via an application) most recently created prior to shutdown, for example Adobe project-saves and cache file saves. On booting again to Mac OS, the OS appears to mend the file system and recover lost files, which appear in a folder of. This leaves the file system slightly damaged, as reported by (not sure if I have MacDrive running or not), if I happen to run that immediately afterwards. press and hold the Power Button to force a power-off. But otherwise, if I do something significant, like run Adobe Premiere, it hangs on shutdown. If I start it up, do almost nothing, then shut down it is ok. Mac OS 10.6.8, often hangs during shutdown. My MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard i.e.

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