Why does Norton find a Portscan attack associated with /mach_kernel?

haha yes exactly Allan, Norton is an big ****..

If you want an good AV use F-Secure 🙂

Giuseppe.P

There are no viruses for Mac OS X. Norton is giving you bad information, so you should ignore it. Even better, turn off and uninstall Norton. It's pointless to pay for something that can't protect you from anything.

Hi,

the file located at /mach_kernel is not a virus.

Is just mac os kernel

mach_kernel file is detected as: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

WARNING: don't delete it, this file is needed to startup

IF YOU DELETE mach_kernel, system not be able to start and should reinstall the operating system to continue

Norton is giving you bad information yes an false positive cause mach_kernel is is filtering network like accept or reject incoming connexions

Thanks,

Giuseppe.P

yes and no,

if you are CAC40 CEO or you have some "BIG DATA" on your mac is need you an antivirus + total disk encryption.

or you can be attacked by "http exploit kit"

so if you are NOT CAC40 CEO dosen't need you antivirus

browse internet safely 😉 thanks

Giuseppe.P

Norton Antivirus (made by Symantec) has a very long and illustrious reputation for mangling Mac OS X systems, sometimes to the point where a complete reinstall is necessary. Among other things, it installs kernel extensions which are known to cause kernel panics and system freezes; it contains known and documented bugs which can silently corrupt Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign files, destroy a user's ability to authenticate as an administrator, and (on PPC systems) can cause Classic to stop functioning; and Symantec has on at least two occasions now released flawed .dat file updates which erroneously report certain critical Mac OS X files as "viruses." (Deleting these "viruses" causes damage to the system that in some cases renders it unbootable.)

Norton Removal Tool (Symantec Uninstaller):

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH103489&locale =en_US

Norton is totally worthless on a Mac.

Uninstall it and then you will no longer have a problem.

Norton is one of the worst AV software packages for use on Mac.

It should always be avoided.

Allan