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ESET CyberSecurity for Mac Issues

October 30, 2011 By 2 Comments

Having been a Microsoft Windows user for years (until now actually), I didn’t like the idea of having an antivirus as optional for my new MacBook Air. Mac OS is a more secure platform (than MS Windows) today, but that doesn’t mean it is free from security threat. That’s why one of the first applications that I installed to my Mac is an antivirus, and I picked ESET CyberSecurity for Mac for ESET good reputation.

Here’s when the problems started, applications hang very frequently, shutting down takes around two minutes (that is way too long for a newly 4 GB DDR3 Memory, Intel i5 MacBook Air with SSD Storage), at first I didn’t realized some issues that I experienced on my Mac was caused by the ESET antivirus, for around two weeks having the issues, I really disappointed with the overall performance of Mac OS Lion on my MacBook Air.

However, having read end-user reviews on the new MacBook Air, everywhere I read it was totally different stories, most people are very satisfied with the performance, so then I started to look at another possibilities, one of them is conflict from certain application, especially those came from outside the App Store, my first guess is the ESET antivirus as it has a deep relation with the overall system, googling it a little, I was getting more sure that I was correct, several people have the exact same issues.

As a reputable company, I am sure ESET will have it fixed (fyi, it was version 4.0.73 installed on my Mac), but as you may have guessed, I didn’t wish to wait, I wanted it to be uninstalled immediately, but too bad I didn’t know how to uninstalled it at that time, it might sounds silly, but hey.. all this time I am a Microsoft Windows user, so I’m still learning how to get around on Mac OS environment.

It turns out, the steps are very simple. Just execute the installer file and voila there the uninstall button, below I insert the images on uninstalling direction from a very complete ESET knowledge base Web Support:

Step 1:

Step 2:

And now my MacBook Air runs very smoothly, and I think I’ll just leave my it runs without any antivirus for the moment. However, I still do curious on finding the best antivirus for my Mac, do you have any suggestions?

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God’s Debris

December 16, 2005 By 2 Comments

If you like to read comic strip, definitely you are familiar with Scott Adams, creator of DilbertTM. It turns out that he is also a book writer, I accidentally found one of his book in singapore public library few months ago. This amazing book titled God’s Debris.

Having prepared my self for an entertaining funny book, but I was wrong, not totally wrong because the book is very ‘entertaining’ though. I can’t put this philosophy book down right until I finished it. It’s not an ordinary philosophical book, reading this book is like riding wildly on a journey, a journey of mind.

In his blog, he offered legal soft copy of this book for FREE:

http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/godsdebris/

Synopsis
Taken from the download page

Book Cover

Imagine that you meet a very old man who—you eventually realize—knows literally everything. Imagine that he explains for you the great mysteries of life—quantum physics, evolution, God, gravity, light, psychic phenomenon, and probability—in a way so simple, so novel, and so compelling that it all fits together and makes perfect sense.

What does it feel like to suddenly understand everything? God’s Debris isn’t the final answer to the Big Questions. But it might be the most compelling vision of reality you will ever read. The thought experiment is this: Try to figure out what’s wrong with the old man’s explanation of reality. Share the book with your smart friends then discuss it later while enjoying a beverage.

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