Rob, Thanks so much, don't know why I didn't think of that, your help is greatly appreciated.
John R. On Oct 10, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Rob Kersting wrote: > 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> > | 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>
