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I have permanently disabled NAV Auto Protect due to a number of problems. Now my system is more stable than ever. I just do a manual scan every now and then and rarely do I find anything. Sometimes a PC virus is found in a Safari-related folder. It can't hurt my Mac but maybe it can send itself...

See these threads http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?p=365400#post365400 http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?p=365401&posted=1#post365401 ;)

An easier way to save a video stream in Safari is to open the Activity window and look for the .mov file (or whatever) and Option–double-click it. ;)

This reply is probably waaaay to late for you, but the easiest way to save a video stream in Safari is to open the Activity window and look for the .mov file (or whatever) and Option–double-click it. ;)

Good to hear you solved your problem, dirtbagg :)

Someone told me the computer was invented to make life easier! Hilarious! It was invented by the guys we teased at school. Major payback! :D

Trex, I just thought of something else. How much free HD space do you have on the boot volume? You need at least as much free space as the amount of physical RAM you have installed. I had weird things happening to my machine some time after upgrading the RAM to 640Mb. It turned out to be...

Maybe it's time to run DiskWarrior or Drive10 to eliminate a problem with the hard disk, perhaps the boot block. Sounds like the system software is OK.

Have you booted from the Jaguar install CD and repaired the permissions? Also try to log in as a different user. If the problem is gone then the culprit is in your User folder. You can then drag the prefs for Safari and IE to the desktop, log out & in again and see if the problem persists.

The problem apparently is somwhere in your user folder, possibly the Preferences folder. You can check your prefs for errors using the Terminal. At the prompt, type in "sudo plutil -s ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist" (obviously without the quotation marks). Any pref then listed may have a problem...

Trex, what software are you running? I just had a problem resolved by turning off Norton Antivirus AutoProtect. Quite some time ago I also had freezes and the "gray screen of death" ("You need to restart your computer…") which were due to a corrupt printer driver. Have you tried to do a 'safe...

Well, I turned off Norton AutoProtect, rebooted and low and behold MYOB is flying again! Seems like the Norton CDs will spend the rest of their days as coasters. Thanks ElDiablo, you're a clever devil! :p

I'm confused! I have been advised to use DiskWarrior instead of the bug-ridden Norton, but if that too can do harm to the system what should you use?! :confused:

Don't know if this helps, but I had similar problems quite some time back. The gray screen of death appeared for no apparent reason. I also had some other problems which were reproducible and although I can't recall what they were they enabled me to pinpoint a corrupt prefs file called...

Norton has found PC virii on my machine twice in the past, somewhere in a Safari-associated folder, probably desperately looking for non-existent files to infect, but most likely able to send themselves on to others via my internet connection. There is also the infamous Opener out there which...

I knew Norton Disk Doctor is a dud but I didn't know NAV was an issue. What about Speed Disk? What should I use for virus protection and defrag instead?

MYOB Accounting Plus, Palm Desktop, Norton Antivirus, AppleWorks, Safari, Mail, iLife 05, Cocktail, miscellaneous games. I recently installed Konfabulator but the problems existed long before that.

A few weeks ago I erased my startup disk and did a clean reinstall due to performance problems I couldn't rectify. MYOB was getting slow at recording anything. A sale took 5-6 seconds to record once the button was clicked, and a log entry took even longer, all while the HD was clicking and...

On Sonnet's site they have a download section with updates. It seems you need a new driver for your card, since your machine doesn't fully recognise it. I had similar problems with my G4 400 and the Sonnet 1.4GHz card. Download and run the OSX Sonnet tune-up. Also check that you have the latest...

I upgraded my G4 400 with a Sonnet 1.4GHz processor, a 2nd 120G HD, RAM up to 650Mb and an ATI 9000 Pro. I haven't looked back. Oh…and a USB2 PCI card. That's the idea with the design…to facilitate upgrades. Most things I got off eBay at a more than reasonable price. OK so the RAM isn't as fast...