Safari. Safari is unable to open
Safari is unable to open either direct, or from email links. It will open Facebook and if the email link is http://secure i.e. it will open Greenpeace
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Tried to download Safari 5.1.10 thro firefox. Page with links opened. Tried to open link for Safari 5.1.10 download without success. Message server dropped connection whilst loading page.
Is there a way that I can un-install Safari, Sophos and AVG. I cannot belive moving them to 'trash' is sufficient
Try again, & if no change, attempt it in Safe mode and/or after uninstalling Sophos & AVG & Rapport.
Downloading/installing Safari 5.1.10 will completely replace the Safari application & its supporting system software files.
How to remove Sophos Endpoint Security and Control from client computers
Sophos has its own uninstaller Remove Sophos.... in the Applications folder. For AVG http://www.avg.com/us-en/utilities
I have a somewhat different take on this than Andy does. I know there have been problems with Sophos and 10.9, but haven't seen anything with any regularity with Sophos and 10.6. (Maybe Andy can explain where he's seeing that.) You should never have been running two on-access AVs together. That creates conflicts. I would uninstall the AVG crap and leave Sophos for the time being, which is a decent AV, and see if Safari starts working properly.
And did you try turning off the two Web protection features in Sophos? That's where the conflict with AVG would mostly likely have been. If that fixes it, I'd still get rid of the AVG crap.
>>Maybe Andy can explain where he's seeing that...
Several recent posts on this website where users had problems viewing web pages, that went away after removing Sophos.
That's likely to be those two web protection features. Turn those off first, but don't uninstall the entire Sophos, as a test.
Thank you everybody. Success at last. I tried all your points one by one. In the end I wasn't absolutely certain what happened. I had firefox open but couldn't download Safari 5.1.10. I checked the preferences of Sophos and as everything was off, I moved everything to on. I then tried to download 5.1.10 again and it worked. So I'm back in business. Thanks again Guys.
I'm glad that you got it worked out.
WZZZ The link you gave me to AVG is for windows. Do you know the one for a Mac?
If that isn't it, just keep Googling. What I did.
If you encounter any further issues with Sophos, this is the best place for them to be answered.
http://openforum.sophos.com/t5/Sophos-Anti-Virus-for-Mac-Home/bd-p/FTT_MAC_MAGNE T
Thanks WZZZ
Hi Guys,
I rtied to remove AVG and found out that AVG is very complicated and could be dangerous to remove. I think Trustee Raport could have been the trouble as everything had been alright for years before I had that. So as I have decided to keep link scanner I checked Sophos preferences and selected default. Result unable to open Sophos.
Back to Sophos moved everything to open, Result all OK. Very strange as it's been on default for ages.
That's computers for you. Thanks again.
>>AVG is very complicated and could be dangerous to remove
How to...: How to uninstall AVG AntiVirus for Mac
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Safari. Safari is unable to open