McAfee VirusScan for Mac OS X logs 'getgrnam("Virex")' error every 10 seconds

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Published on 2009-12-17T14:58:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/05 5:03 UTC
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Every 10 seconds, something like the following appears in the Mac OS X system log:

17/12/2009 14:51:11 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.mcafee.virusscan.ScanManager[20499]) getgrnam("Virex") failed 
17/12/2009 14:51:11 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.mcafee.virusscan.ScanManager[20499]) Exited with exit code: 1 
17/12/2009 14:51:11 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.mcafee.virusscan.ScanManager) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 
17/12/2009 14:51:13 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.mcafee.virusscan.VShieldEPOInterface[20500]) getgrnam("Virex") failed 
17/12/2009 14:51:13 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.mcafee.virusscan.VShieldEPOInterface[20500]) Exited with exit code: 1 
17/12/2009 14:51:13 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.mcafee.virusscan.VShieldEPOInterface) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

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