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psmith2.0
Mr. Vieira
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
 
2005-05-04, 18:28

Ha...this was my EXACT situation last week.

It's Virex! Something about it and Tiger don't play nice, I suppose. In fact, Apple no longer offers it on .Mac (not sure if that'll change in the future or what).

But someone here sent me a link that completely removes Virex and all its stuff from your Mac and I haven't heard the fan since. And yes, in my Activity Monitor, it was showing that vshield thing taking ALL my resources...my fan was churning and my PowerBook was hot as Pop-Tart.



Here's the link I used to uninstall Virex...

http://www.networkassociates.com/us/...ex/virex76.htm
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