Keychain resets all the time - virus?

[tunebrad]

I have some sort of virus and think I have remioved it with Sophos Antivirus. However now, everytime I restart the keychain resets to zero and the message "Keychain "login" cannot be found to store "registrationV1"". Can anoyone help please...

 

[MacInWin]

You didn't have a virus, there aren't any for OS X. What Sophos removed, if it did, was either a Windows virus in your mail system, or in some file you got from a Windows system in the email. Both are harmless to OS X.

What may have happened is that Sophos "fixed" your keychain. Get rid of Sophos.

 

[tunebrad]

thank you

thanks for your help. Sophos won't uninstall properly now, so frustrating.... am thinking I might have to install it again and trash again, what do you think?

 

[MacInWin]

Read this.

 

[harryb2448]

As Jake points out a heck of a lot more than dragging to the Trash. If his instructions don't work, then yes install and start all over again. As there are no Mac OS X viruses, no databases and you run Windows databases.

If coming from the Windows background you feel you must have AV software, download and use ClamXAV.