PSE 6 on Mac Book Pro Crashes when opening a picture

Question

Whenever I try to open a picture PSE crashes. This is similar to another post but I should not be having RAM or generation issues. I have removed and downloaded from different DMGs all to no avail. Please advise.
Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for the comment but I wasn't asking about viruses.  The thread I asked on solved the other user's issue because of the Norton incompatibility. I was referring to the original question which had nothing to do with viruses.  I open elements and try to open a picture from iphoto to work on and elements quits.  Since I don't have Norton or any other anti virus program, I was hoping there was another explanation which would apply to my situation.  Any ideas?
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:34:51 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: PSE 6 on Mac Book Pro Crashes when opening a picture
There's really no need for Norton on the Mac - because there is no such thing as a Mac virus.  I realize that this could change tomorrow, but as of today, there is no such thing as a Mac virus.  There hasn't been for about a decade.
You can remove Norton.  I removed it from my Macs about a decade ago. 
To prevent any future viruses from getting in, set up a new sub-user account on your Mac, and start using it.  Don't run your Mac as the Administrator.
When you run as a lowly user, your Mac keeps an eye over what you do, and demands the Administrator's name and password whenever you do something suspicious.  That won't be a problem 99.9% of the time.  It's only a problem when you try to install an application or a utility. 
Keep that limitation in mind, and use it to your advantage.  A virus is an application that pretends to be something else.  It lures you into installing that virus onto your computer.  Let's say in the future you download what you think is a photo.  It's really a virus.  You double-click on it to launch Photoshop Elements.  Instead, you launch the virus, which starts to install itself on your Mac. 
At that point, everything comes to a screeching halt when the Mac operating system stops the installation, and puts a message on the screen.  That message will say something like, "Please type the Administrator's name and password to INSTALL THIS APPLICATION into the Applications Folder."  That is your tipoff that you aren't dealing with a photo.  You are dealing with an application. 
At this point, you should ask yourself, "Why is a photo trying to install anything?"  Whenever the Mac operating system asks for the Administrator's name and password, you should ask yourself if you know exactly what is being installed.
If you were running your Mac as the Administrator, then you wouldn't get this warning messages.  The Mac would say, "Well, I guess he knows what he's doing, so I'll install this application."  And the still-to-be-written virus would be installed on your Mac.  It's a lot easier to keep viruses off your computer than to try to remove them once they get in.
This is why you don't need anti-virus software on the Mac - if you have an intelligent user operating the computer as a sub-user.
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