I’ve been having trouble on my Mac lately, and I’m poking around in various places to diagnose the problem. One of the places I looked was /private/var/log/system.log, aka /var/log/system.log. I see blocks of messages like the following, repeated over and over. Does this indicate something seriously broken on my system, or is this an unsurprising and mundane result from avast?
Sep 20 14:35:20 hawking com.avast.proxy[83]: Defective HTTP request!
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Sep 20 14:35:33 hawking com.avast.proxy[83]: Defective HTTP request!
Sep 20 14:35:33 hawking com.avast.proxy[83]: Åí{”ñ V¢„t^Hߡ~˛§#OÁß$H
Sep 20 14:35:48 hawking mds[64]: (/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/2F0D9846-8282-4C0A-94B2-507351ECFDF2)(Error) IndexCI in _CIUpdateTimeStamp:time stamp should be more recent new:1379712899, old:1379712948
Sep 20 14:36:15 hawking mds[64]: (/.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/2F0D9846-8282-4C0A-94B2-507351ECFDF2)(Error) IndexCI in _CIUpdateTimeStamp:time stamp should be more recent new:1379712948, old:1379712972
Sep 20 14:36:40: — last message repeated 1 time —
Sep 20 14:36:40 hawking com.avast.proxy[83]: Error reading receive buffer: read(): Connection reset by peer
Sep 20 14:36:50 hawking 1PasswordAgent[426]: Failed to return databaseID, encryption key is not loaded
Sep 20 14:36:53 hawking com.avast.proxy[83]: Error reading receive buffer: read(): Connection reset by peer
Sep 20 14:37:09 hawking com.avast.proxy[83]: SSL_read(): EOF