NAV and Distiller woes

[chiazadora]

My lab setup is 100 G4's (AGP, QuickSilver,MDD) all running 10.2.6, Norton Anti Virus 9 and Adobe Distiller 6.

Apparently NAV auto-protect needs to be off to use Distiller. That would be okay, except all of my users are nonadmins, so turning it off and on at will is a no-go. Keeping auto-protect off all the time defeats the purpose.

So my question/plea is, is there any way to change the Auto Protect preference pane so there is no authentication needed?

[mervTormel]

i suggest de-installing NAV. it is a marginally useless product kept alive by the FUD marketeers.

ask yourself, "has it ever provided any protection?"

if it is a requirement at your installation, i would re-examine its usefulness and re-evaluate your objectives.

dubious marketing hoo-hah:

Quote: Bloodhound technology stops unknown viruses Bloodhound is the Norton AntiVirus scanning technology for detecting new and unknown viruses. It detects viruses by analyzing an executable file’s structure, behavior, and other attributes such as programming logic, computer instructions, and any data contained in the file.

a dubious claim, and something any reasonable admin wouldn't want running on their rig. the security implications are enormous.

if you want to test this claim, we can set up a simple, innocent trojan to see if NAV has any stones.

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[chiazadora]

Thank you for answering my question.

[meancode]

I agree on Merv here. NAV has the same "wonderful" merits on Windows as well

I would suggest Sophos, both for OS X, and for Windows.