Norton Anti-Virus Causing Problems With Zip Disc Eject

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Zip Disc Not Ejecting With Norton Anti-Virus Active

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I have been using my two Power Mac Mac G5's in my technical illustration business and Zip 250Mb cartridges as part of my back-up of drawing files since 2005. For the past year or so, ejecting my Zip 100 and 250 cartridges out of the Zip 250 drives has been problematic with my G5's -- the cartridges won't eject until the third attempt, dragging the desktop Zip Disc icon to the trash. This problem started after an application upgrade. After some trial and error, I found that this problem was due to interference by my Norton Anti-Virus software. When the Norton Anti-Virus is active, the Zip cartridges require repeated dragging to the trash in order to eject them -- very frustrating! When the Anti-Virus is turned off, the cartridges eject at first attempt -- functioning properly. I am running Norton Anti-Virus 11, and this same problem was happening with version 10, also. I hope this helps others who are having this same problem with Zip disc's not ejecting properly. Thanks!

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Hello Mac-Forum members!

I have been using my two Power Mac Mac G5's in my technical illustration business and Zip 250Mb cartridges as part of my back-up of drawing files since 2005. For the past year or so, ejecting my Zip 100 and 250 cartridges out of the Zip 250 drives has been problematic with my G5's -- the cartridges won't eject until the third attempt, dragging the desktop Zip Disc icon to the trash. This problem started after an application upgrade. After some trial and error, I found that this problem was due to interference by my Norton Anti-Virus software. When the Norton Anti-Virus is active, the Zip cartridges require repeated dragging to the trash in order to eject them -- very frustrating! When the Anti-Virus is turned off, the cartridges eject at first attempt -- functioning properly. I am running Norton Anti-Virus 11, and this same problem was happening with version 10, also. I hope this helps others who are having this same problem with Zip disc's not ejecting properly. Thanks!

Peter Natscher, owner
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I'm very anti Norton ever since Peter Norton sold the company to Symantec many years ago, so please take that into consideration with this reply. O:)

Norton Anti Virus software in my opinion, is a virus. I can well understand your concern about virus infections and so forth. But when was the last time you heard of someone who owned a Mac that was infected? If you must run AV software, try the free ClamAV which is much less intrusive and seems to work well.

ClamAV

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I'm very anti Norton ever since Peter Norton sold the company to Symantec many years ago, so please take that into consideration with this reply. O:)

Norton Anti Virus software in my opinion, is a virus. I can well understand your concern about virus infections and so forth. But when was the last time you heard of someone who owned a Mac that was infected? If you must run AV software, try the free ClamAV which is much less intrusive and seems to work well.

ClamAV

Regards.

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I would second that as well (to third it sounds like bad grammar)
 
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One advice for SAV Anti Virus - trash it today.
 
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I'm not a Norton advocate anymore but want to make sure I'm not passing any viruses to my PC that I share my drawing work with. My drawings go back and forth between my Mac and PC. I also don't want to pass viruses to my client's PC's when I email them my drawing work from my Mac. I guess I'll deactivate (uninstall) the Norton Anti-Virus on my Mac and leave it up to my PC to handle its own Virus protection issue. I was trying to cover more bases but not at the expense of my Mac's performance. Thanks!

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I will!

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It would be different if Norton Anti Virus were actually protecting you from something. But besides Windows viruses, which your Mac is immune from, there is nothing to protect against.
 

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I'm not a Norton advocate anymore but want to make sure I'm not passing any viruses to my PC that I share my drawing work with. My drawings go back and forth between my Mac and PC. I also don't want to pass viruses to my client's PC's when I email them my drawing work from my Mac. I guess I'll deactivate (uninstall) the Norton Anti-Virus on my Mac and leave it up to my PC to handle its own Virus protection issue. I was trying to cover more bases but not at the expense of my Mac's performance. Thanks!

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In my opinion, the onus is on the user to protect their machine from viruses. If you're running Windows without adequate virus protection, you deserve whatever you contract.
 

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