[X4U] Yahoo

[Paul Moortgat]

He could finally install Safari and now all is well.  Thanks.

Paul Moortgat


On 25 Feb 2010, at 14:40, Dave wrote:

> Yahoo isn not the problem nor the solution. The problem is whatever  
> software that was installed and possibly Firefox. The anti-virus  
> software needs to be setup or configured properly or completely  
> removed. Personally, I'd remove it and try to get a refund as it is  
> obviously defective.
>
> With regard to Firefox, it is not the only browser on the Mac, so  
> downloading a fresh copy of Firefox would be my first suggestion.  
> Preferences and cache files would be my next suggestion.
>
> Dave
>
> On 2010-02-25, at 01:49, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>
>> A friend has this problem for which I can't give much support.  I  
>> don't use Yahoo.
>>
>> >>
>> I'm using my PC because I can't get Firefox to run on my Mac  
>> lately. I recently installed a new virus defender program on the  
>> Mac. It has quarantined a file "admin.syncdb," which I think is  
>> part of Yahoo Sync, which I had activated on my Yahoo.com account.  
>> I access Yahoo.com with Firefox on both Mac and PC.
>> Firefox won't start on the Mac, so I can't get to Yahoo.com to  
>> disable Yahoo Sync. I can't find the offending file to remove it,  
>> and I haven't been able to find Yahoo Sync in my Applications folder.
>> The Mac is working fine, but I'm locked out of the Internet on it  
>> until I can solve the quarantine problem.
>> <<
>>
>> Paul Moortgat