Can nay one please tell me what Vshield update is and why it activates taking up my entire CPUs memory?
Can it be deleted/uninstalled and how?
Will this affect my mac if it is deleted?
Any ideas? Many thanks, Jimmy B
I have seen another discussion on this subject and a termial comand to delete the subject. But it doesn't seem to work?
I am running OS X 10.7.1 now.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
Hello:
A Google search revealed this:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vshield/overview.html
If what you have is the same product, vShield is a third party application. A further search turned up "McAfee." McAfee makes A/V software that is completely unnecessary on a Mac.
Have you downloaded something? Did you click on some link and then download something from a web page? Do you run on a network (company or otherwise)?
Barry
Barry, thank youf or your insight.
However it seems Lion had dragged through the remains of an old copy of McAfee I had installed on an older system.
I had to log in through ROOT and delete it manually. Logging in through ROOT being more complicated than deleting the guilty McAfee.
But all is good now.
Many thanks, Jimmy B
You are welcome. When I saw McAfee the hair stood up on the back of my neck! 😉
Please mark the post "solved" if everything is OK now.
Barry
Jimmy, I'm having the same problem since upgrading to Lion about 3 wks ago. Is deleting "through root" something i should leave to the genius bar, or can you give me a step by step? I've managed to stave off a few CPU resource hogging episodes by quiting VShield via the Activity Monitor, but would like the problem to go away permanently! Any suggestions?
McAfee was added to our MacBook Air by the techies where my hubby works... Conditions of the employee computer purchase plan sale! PC folks, as you can imagine. Anyway, when Lion updated, the version of McAfee was said to be incompatible, so I trashed the application (👿), but i guess VShield is still trying to update something on my Mac!
Thanks for any suggestions!
Brige
Brige,
if you haven't log in as Root before on your computer, you will not have a password.
Basically, you have to enable root log in on your computer, log in as root, do a search for all mcafee apps and delete them. Then restart and log in as yourself and Vshield will no longer bother you.
To be safe, I would suggest you drop into your local genis bar, and give them this advice and ask them to take you through the root log in and set up... it will prove useful later!
McAffe burries the vshield app, deep in the system and you cannot get to it any other way.
Good luck and all the best!
Jimmy
What is Vshield update
