On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: > On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:58 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: > >> On Apr 28, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: >> >>> On Apr 27, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 16:29, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What is "centrify"? >>>> >>>> Centrify is a central management system for auditing, package >>>> management, etc. I'm guessing this is a company machine? You may need >>>> to have it and McAfee reinstalled with updated versions. >>> >>> Hi Arno, >>> >>> Yes, this is a company machine. I guess I will have to contact our >>> computer support folks. They still are not supporting Lion, so I was >>> hoping to get things working on my own, but I suppose I'll need to call >>> them. >> >> If they are not supporting it, why do you care if "centrify" or macafee is >> running? >> >> Just wondering >> Chad > > I did not even know what "centrify" was, so I did not know whether I should > care or not.
but now you do. > Also, even if I should not care about it, I do not know how to stop it from > running. Mainly I am concerned because it dominates my Console logs. These > same 15 lines of "error messages" are repeating every 5 or 10 seconds, so it > is difficult to see any other messages because they are buried in millions of > lines of centrify/McAfee messages. why bother? My point is: if this is a centrally managed machine, supposedly, and they don't support Lion, but you installed Lion, why rock the boat? I don't know how your IT dept is but I would not want to involve IT in anything I did not have to. > > As for McAfee, is this software generally considered helpful, hurtful, or > just useless? I consider it useless. But with this latest Java based malware thingy going around more people will probably find it useful than previously. Just don't type your password into anything you did not mean to do or know what it is doing etc, don't visit dodgy sites, and avoid java and flash. > > How do I remove the centrify software? Also, I do not believe I have a way > to remove the McAfee software, as I do not see a McAfee package or a McAfee > uninstaller. This was installed by the computer support folks, so I guess I > will have to ask them to remove it (and I'm sure they will then want to > install a Lion version). > See above. Why bother. Everyone's logs are full of useless lines that come from things that don't know what they are doing. When it comes to IT dept, especially when I am running "unsupported", I keep them as far away as possible. Chad > Thanks, > > Gregg > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
