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Odds & Ends: Zip and Norton AntiVirus; Sims and QT5

Odds & Ends: Zip and Norton AntiVirus; Sims and QT5

CNET staff
PC-formatted disks and Norton AntiVirus glitch? Robert Benezra reports an odd symptom where PC-formatted Zip disks could not be ejected on a Power Mac G4 running Mac OS 9.1 - unless file sharing was disabled or Norton AntiVirus was turned off. The problem did not occur with Mac-formatted disks. Steven Merlin confirms this.

Sims and QuickTime 5 glitch? A MacFixIt Forums thread (Sims trouble installing with QT 5 installed, says need 4.1 or higher) indicates that at least some people get a QuickTime error message when trying to run the Sims after installing QuickTime 5.