Re: Anyone with problems accessing .mac?
Phillippe This may or may not be helpful in solving the Virex part of your problem. I had difficulty accessing Virex eUpdate about 18 months ago.and asked Pica (the Virex agents) for help. Part of their reply is as follows This month McAfee seems to have changed what they are doing again and as such numerous customers are having similar problems to what you reported. This is because the ftp site that eUpdate uses to connect to and download the update from has not had the October nor the November definitions placed on it. As such eUpdate sees the September definitions which are already installed and thinks that it is up to date. In order to overcome this issue there are a few options. The virus definition update file can downloaded from the McAfee website and then manually applied. The URL for this is below. http://www.networkassociates.com/us/downloads/updates/default.asp Click on the text link DATs then click the I Agree button if prompted. At the following page select the text link DAT File for Virex 6.x. (Approx 3Mb) After the download has completed the file should then be automatically decompressed in to reveal a folder with the same name. Inside this are two files, a read me and the definitions file which has the Virex icon on it. Double click on this file to open Virex and then click update to apply the file. You will receive a message once this has been finished. In order to obtain a new copy of Virex and/or update your virus definitions each month it is necessary to have a current Virex Perpetual License. Our records indicate that a boxed product of Virex is currently being used. These boxed shipped with either a one year or two year license included which enabled you to download definition updates for this period. At the end of this time it was necessary to obtain a Virex license renewal. Unfortunately this was never really made clear to customers nor adequately enforced until a few years ago. The Virex License enables you to download the appropriate version of Virex for your current Operating System, to download the monthly virus definition updates and to download any software upgrades that are released during your license period. This license is available from Apple resellers and directly from PICA Software. The current cost of the one year license is $85.00 including GST. Unfortunately there is no upgrade path available. Please contact us if you have any further queries about Virex and/or the Virex Perpetual License. -- Cheers, Mairian Gildea Software Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ PICA Software Pty Ltd ACN 053 857 275 22 Aintree Street Phone: +61 3 9388-9588 Brunswick East VIC 3057 Australia Fax: +61 3 9388-9788 Email addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] World Wide Web: http://www.pica.com.au . At 22:31 +0800 20/3/06, J Philippe Chaperon wrote: Dear WAMUG members, I have been having difficulty in accessing my .mac account, and also Virex has been unable to access the eUpdate server. At times there are no problems with the .mac account, but specially today when clicking on the mail button, the browser apps indicator button keeps truning indefinitely. Tried on both Safari (v1.3.2) and FireFox (v1.5.0.1). Also Virex has been unable to update the virus definitions for almost 5 days now with the message 'cannot connect to the eUpdate server', or words to this effect. Running OS X 10.3.9 on a G5 dual 1.8 Ghz, and using a NetComm NB5Plus4W modem. Must add that I have no problems with accessing Apple's main page, reading the news and other items, nor in retrieving my mail from my ISP's mail server. For some reason I have had some problems also with accessing my Yahoo account. Looks like a problem relating with Webmail perhaps, although this seems to be intermittent. I would be grateful for any pointers - is this my computer, the ADSL line, an ISP problem? Many thanks, Philippe C -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Weekes 13/244 Mill Point Road South Perth 6151 +61 8 9367 5310
Network macs
Hello Wamuggers, I have had a mate network two macs , all ok, then I discover the password is only one way, and can only connect A to B, not B to A. Can someone help me put the password in, or is there something on the net, Thanks, Bill
Looing for ECU Mac Guru
Hi: I am an ECU staff member having trouble connecting to the wireless: ECU-Access and ECU-Mesh. Anyone out there managed to do it? And if so, how? Also, any staff member out there using the Convivity VPN client successfully? If so, how? Any advice appreciated (off list please) Nat
Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)
Antony N. Lord wrote: So I tried copying the data direct to the laptop. It seems there are some long file names that the PC doesn't like and the copy fails (a real pain half way through 30Gb). Hi Anthony If you are using Ethernet to do the above have you tried taking the files from the windoze side? Not sure but this might help with filename dramas. Also, I have seen utilities for name cleaning, just cant recall any sorry. HTH Paul
Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:56 +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: I am very patiently trying to help my sister move her 30Gb of data from an external HFS+ drive (originally used on a Mac) to her PC laptop (n, the dark side!) So far I copied the data to my G5 and reformatted the external drive on the PC (NTFS). I don't want to use FAT32... Then I discovered fricken Tiger doesn't WRITE to NTFS volumes yet. Bugger! Not even any Linux distros write to NTFS. I think it is a legal issue... So I tried copying the data direct to the laptop. It seems there are some long file names that the PC doesn't like and the copy fails (a real pain half way through 30Gb). So then I try to be smart arse and create an uncompressed ZIP file with Stuffit. When I try to expand it on the PC (with either ZP or Stuffit Standard 8) I get a series of 'archive verification failed' errors, partial expansion then Stuffit barfs. Anyone got some advice before I go find the hammer? An app to clean the file names first? Something else? Format at GAT32 (external drive) copy the data, etc... Tried formatting as a tarball instead? (.tar, or something along those lines). There will be a similar uncompressing agent for the PC. Seeya Rod
Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)
On 20/03/06, Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So then I try to be smart arse and create an uncompressed ZIP file with Stuffit. Antony, try creating an uncompressed *StuffIt* archive instead of a ZIP archive. Then, use StuffIt to expand the archive on the PC. Stuffit archive expansion is a process that knows it has to deal with filenames, file-type associations, etc, whereas ZIP decompression is probably more naive.
Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)
Antony, I used NameCleaner X a few years ago to transfer 10gig of Mac data to a window 200 server. It's pretty good at the whole renaming thing, but at the time tended to chug if you tried more and a gig in one sitting. http://www.sigsoftware.com/namecleaner/ Cheers, Tobes. On 21/3/06 10:32 AM, James Devenish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/03/06, Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So then I try to be smart arse and create an uncompressed ZIP file with Stuffit. Antony, try creating an uncompressed *StuffIt* archive instead of a ZIP archive. Then, use StuffIt to expand the archive on the PC. Stuffit archive expansion is a process that knows it has to deal with filenames, file-type associations, etc, whereas ZIP decompression is probably more naive. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Damn windows machines! (File transfer dramas)
it sounds to me like you need Macdrive. allows windows machines to read mac formatted hard drives Yvonne On 21/03/2006, at 11:39 AM, Oldham, Toby wrote: Antony, I used NameCleaner X a few years ago to transfer 10gig of Mac data to a window 200 server. It's pretty good at the whole renaming thing, but at the time tended to chug if you tried more and a gig in one sitting. http://www.sigsoftware.com/namecleaner/ Cheers, Tobes. On 21/3/06 10:32 AM, James Devenish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/03/06, Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So then I try to be smart arse and create an uncompressed ZIP file with Stuffit. Antony, try creating an uncompressed *StuffIt* archive instead of a ZIP archive. Then, use StuffIt to expand the archive on the PC. Stuffit archive expansion is a process that knows it has to deal with filenames, file-type associations, etc, whereas ZIP decompression is probably more naive. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone with problems accessing .mac?
Hi John, Many thanks for the information you provided. I will try it after watching the Bill tonight!! Sorry, but the Bill is my only TV show these days . I am glad to find that I was not the only one having a problem. I got the Virex application via my subscription to a .Mac account. So will have to see because I seem to think that Apple does not include Virex in their .Mac package anymore. But will see. Many thanks again and regards, Philippe on 21/3/06 5:09 AM, John Weekes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillippe This may or may not be helpful in solving the Virex part of your problem. I had difficulty accessing Virex eUpdate about 18 months ago.and asked Pica (the Virex agents) for help. Part of their reply is as follows This month McAfee seems to have changed what they are doing again and as such numerous customers are having similar problems to what you reported. This is because the ftp site that eUpdate uses to connect to and download the update from has not had the October nor the November definitions placed on it. As such eUpdate sees the September definitions which are already installed and thinks that it is up to date. In order to overcome this issue there are a few options. The virus definition update file can downloaded from the McAfee website and then manually applied. The URL for this is below. http://www.networkassociates.com/us/downloads/updates/default.asp Click on the text link DATs then click the I Agree button if prompted. At the following page select the text link DAT File for Virex 6.x. (Approx 3Mb)
Re: Anyone with problems accessing .mac?
Sorry Phillippe I may have missed something. Is Virex compatible with Tigger? I have Virex 7.2 with Tigger 10.4.5 and seem to remember reading that it doesn't rid the tapeworms from Tigger's Tummy. I don't really use it myself. A case for Combantrin perhaps? Regards Reg __ On 21 Mar 2006, at 8:25pm, J Philippe Chaperon wrote: Hi John, Many thanks for the information you provided. I will try it after watching the Bill tonight!! Sorry, but the Bill is my only TV show these days . I am glad to find that I was not the only one having a problem. I got the Virex application via my subscription to a .Mac account. So will have to see because I seem to think that Apple does not include Virex in their .Mac package anymore. But will see. Many thanks again and regards, Philippe on 21/3/06 5:09 AM, John Weekes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillippe This may or may not be helpful in solving the Virex part of your problem. I had difficulty accessing Virex eUpdate about 18 months ago.and asked Pica (the Virex agents) for help. Part of their reply is as follows This month McAfee seems to have changed what they are doing again and as such numerous customers are having similar problems to what you reported. This is because the ftp site that eUpdate uses to connect to and download the update from has not had the October nor the November definitions placed on it. As such eUpdate sees the September definitions which are already installed and thinks that it is up to date. In order to overcome this issue there are a few options. The virus definition update file can downloaded from the McAfee website and then manually applied. The URL for this is below. http://www.networkassociates.com/us/downloads/updates/default.asp Click on the text link DATs then click the I Agree button if prompted. At the following page select the text link DAT File for Virex 6.x. (Approx 3Mb) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
unable to open http:// files
G'Day Running G5, 1.8 Ghz, Safari 2.0.3, Mail 2.0.2, 768 ramm, o/s 10.4.5. When in mail, I used to be able to click any web page address with prefix http:// ie as at the bottom of mail messages, such as wamug Archives . guidelines etc . Nothing happens now, unless I have Safari open in the background, when they will open. Any help to get back to click/open would be much appreciated Thanks Bill Cole
