User account/access rights/priveliges when installing software

I'm new to Macs and have read the odd post about disabling certain options/priveliges within accounts, with regards to installing software so as to limit virus damage and so on. Can anyone please advise me what I should or should not enable and so on?
Thanks in advance.

so don't worry about viruses and the such.
While OS X virus's/trojans can be counted on one hand, I wouldn't go so far as to say not to worry about them. While there are several vendors that make antivirus software for OS X, a popular one is ClamXav, which is available from http://www.clamxav.com. You can set it up to do a daily or weekly (what I do) antivirus scan of your hard drive, as well as scanning any folder(s) where you download files too (I download files to my desktop, where they are scanned).
So far, ClamXav has picked up a phishing email and two emails that had windows virus (the windows virus can't harm a mac, however identifying them for action prevents sending them to others). Last year, MacWorld did several reviews of the various antivirus packages, if you want to see some comparisons. ClamXav is free, however if you use it, send a donation to the author (who is currently working on an Intel mini version, which looks like it's very close to being released).

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I recently switched to using a Mac for media purposes,namely music production.
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Is your regular user an Admin?
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Are these apps installed in the main /Applications folder?
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hpaton wrote:
R C-R, thanks, I did start up in safe mode and went back into my old user account, the one that is giving me all the trouble. It was very slightly faster. I was able to start up a couple programs and when inside those programs the computer seemed to run pretty fast. However, anything on the desktop or the dock still operates in the frozen-for-three-minutes-OK-for-five-seconds-frozen-for-three-minutes pattern.
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Hi
I have a Mac Pro and recently I did a clean install of Lion. The previous OS was 10.6.8.
What I did was I formatted the hard disk where the 10.6.8. was and installed Lion. I also have three other hard disks on my Mac Pro: A mirrored RAID set of 2x750GB drives and a third 750GB drive.
When I did to install a Epson paper ICC profile today, I failed and got the answer "You do not have enough access privileges for this installation."
Furthermore on my Mackintosh HD sharing & permissions it says "You can only read." System user has read & write permissions, a mysterious "wheel" has read only permissions as have the user "everyone" No admin at all mentioned. The other two disks are identical with the exception of this mysterious "wheel" user.
I compared sharing & permissions with my MacBook Pro with 10.6.8. and which works normally. MacBook Pro´s Mackintosh read & write permissions are:
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I normally made me an account with password when installing the Lion to my Mac Pro. When I cehck users & gropus of the Mac Pro, I am the admin and the only visible other user is guest user.
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Thanks so much for you quick reply Ralph.
Is there possibly a thread here where this procedure has been alreay explained? Could you link it to me please? I just dont know how to use the sudo command. Additionally, does the admin password you mention mean the password I made up when installing Lion or some other, superuser password?
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LENOVO 2081CTO
iTunes 10.6.1.7
QuickTime 7.7.1
FairPlay 1.14.37
Apple Application Support 2.1.7
iPod Updater Library 10.0d2
CD Driver 2.2.0.1
CD Driver DLL 2.1.1.1
Apple Mobile Device 5.1.1.4
Apple Mobile Device Driver 1.59.0.0
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Gracenote MusicID 1.9.5.115
Gracenote Submit 1.9.5.143
Gracenote DSP 1.9.5.45
iTunes Serial Number 0039AAC4038E7400
Current user is not an administrator. ??? My windows user account is ???
The current local date and time is 2012-04-28 15:42:00.
iTunes is not running in safe mode.
WebKit accelerated compositing is enabled.
HDCP is supported.
Core Media is supported.
Video Display Information
ATI Technologies Inc., ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
ATI Technologies Inc., Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
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Description:    Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter #2
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Subnet Mask:    0.0.0.0
Default Gateway:    0.0.0.0
DHCP Enabled:    Yes
DHCP Server:
Lease Obtained:    Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
Lease Expires:    Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
DNS Servers:
Adapter Name:    {B63E7F7A-054B-4C26-A088-71CDEB01D8C9}
Description:    Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
IP Address:    0.0.0.0
Subnet Mask:    0.0.0.0
Default Gateway:    0.0.0.0
DHCP Enabled:    Yes
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Lease Expires:    Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
DNS Servers:
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Description:    Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 AGN
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Subnet Mask:    255.255.255.0
Default Gateway:    192.168.0.1
DHCP Enabled:    Yes
DHCP Server:    192.168.0.1
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Corrupted user account - access files from a different user?

I am writing with a problem that I've had for about a week now, and which I have been working with an Apple tech support person to resolve, but I figured I would give this forum a shot, as well.
Last Sunday, my Finder suddenly died on me - I think it was the result of a corrupt file. I first noticed it when I would mouse over my desktop and get a perpetual beachball. I couldn't open a Finder window (or use any applications that rely on accessing my files - iPhoto, iTunes, etc.; the only application that seems to work fine is my internet browser), and when I restarted my computer, I got the same issue when it was back on. I called Apple support and have been working with a senior support rep. We did an archive and install, recreating my old user account named exactly as it had been before. Once I was logged back in, though, I again got the beachball on my desktop. The other admin accounts on the computer do not have the Finder beachball problem, so it is linked specifically to my account. Paul (my tech support friend) recommended that I buy an external hard drive, and if we can't figure out a solution short of backing up my files and erasing my hard drive, we'll do that.
My question is as follows: will I even be able to access the files on my account from another account if the finder in my account isn't working? I really only want to back up my work files, music, and photos. I can get everything else back. There are now two (or maybe three) admin accounts on my computer - can these accounts access each other's files?
I appreciate any answers to my question (or any advice you might have for how else I could resolve this situation).
Thanks!
Message was edited by: EMV123

Assuming the problem account has short user name "foo", and one of the other working accounts has short user name "bar", try this:
1) Log out of the foo account.
1) Log in as bar.
2) Open Terminal and enter this:
su foo (press return, enter foo's password when prompted)
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Finder.plist
exit
See if foo's Finder works now.

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