I used Google to search for "vshieldcheck" and found this discussion:
http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=239923 For those of you who don't want to follow the link, apparently it has something to do with Virex. The answer was to use the terminal to shut Virex down then uninstall it. rob Profile wrote: > Folks, > > I have an iMac, 20" goose neck model, it has never given me a > problem. This machine is used for guest to get on the internet, and > that is about it. I noticed the fan was running loudly and all the > time, while this machine usually is dead silent. > > I opened activity monitor and see that the system is running 70-85% > of capacity, in looking down through the list of programs that are > hogging the CPU I find a program called "VShieldCheck", which is > running at the root level and this is the culprit. > > I don't find this on the other machines, and I also cannot get the > keychain password to accept. > > Any help will be appreciated as to what happened, what this is, and > anyway to get rid of it if it doesn't belong. > > John R. > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
