Mac virus?
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- Sandder
My Mac Pro keeps freezing up every 2 minutes or so. It's impossible to work with. Looks like a worm virus is eating up processing power, but i haven't had one in 10 years. Anybody know of anything out there at the moment? Or had the same problem? Running Leopard on a Mac pro 8 core....
- zaq0
try CleanMyMac
- bored2death0
Does it show up on the activity monitor?
- elahon0
Do you have too many apps open? Is your RAM swap huge? What are you doing at the time that this is happening? Stupid question, but have you done a restart lately?
Check this out menu app out, it puts a RAM and Process monitor in your menu (and some other usefull stuff):
http://bjango.com/apps/istatmenu…- Nope, pretty much the same as always, that's what's weird. Activity monitor freezes up as well.Sandder
- PIZZA0
What actual processes are eating up in activity monitor?
Do you have under 2 gig of disk space?
How does your hard drive sound when this happens?
If you haven't installed any pirated software, or any "codecs" off dodgy websites then it's very unlikely you have a trojan.
- a trojan you notice is a very bad trojan, it's in their interest not to make your computer seem infectedPIZZA
- bad meaning inept in this casecomicsans
- I have heard a whoop sound occasionally, now that you mentioned it. Started after i unstalled a 2T harddisk and would usually do so after idle time, so i assumed it had something to do with spinning up again.....Sandder
- comicsans0
This http://support.apple.com/kb/ht13… will tell how to look for memory problems.
Run Utilities > Console while the problem is happening. Show the log list, is it spitting out error messages while this is happening? If so you may have a system problem, the messages will point towards the problem.
Quit any running browsers, see if that helps.
If the problem persists run the system diagnostics from your install disc
- utopian0
First World Problems
- seriously. how dare he complain about anything other than starvation, genocide, or his plight with ebola.iCanHasQBN
- Ssh, we should be grateful that someone so enlightened chooses to spend time with us.comicsans
- facepalm.jpgPIZZA
- Stian0
Have you tried booting from a different drive? Could be your boot drive slowly collapsing..
- JSK0
Indeed as Stian said
I had this happen to me. Things freezing up, spikes in processor etc.
And one day, it just would start.
- PIZZA0
Generally with OS X I have found if all the apps freeze but you can still drag windows around then it's pointing towards hard drive failure or something getting screwed in the depths of the OS.
However if you get freezes and you can't drag windows around then that also could be corrupt graphics card ram.
checking the console log straight after or during a freeze and seeing if there is anything that sounds bad or repeated a lot then paste it here or google it.
- benfal990
You have an opossum family in the trunk.
- inkpink0
highly doubt it's a trojan or virus. std? perhaps.
- moldero0
"Mac virus" scary title, it wouldn't surprise me to see these popping up a lot in the near future considering the direction apple is going.
- Chivas_Mom0
Were you wearing a condom when you were surfing for porn?
- iron_condor0
i thought apple computers are virus-proof
- pastpastdue0
my computer is also acting up. it was freezing a lot while doing inane things (launching safari, etc). early 2008 imac.
can't drag windows around but mouse still moves. not a virus but they think it's a hard drive issue. was on phone with them for 40+ minutes today. they basically tried everything, but it's taking like 10 minutes to boot now. just got the hard drive replaced last year.
taking it in tomorrow. frustrating. just got it back after it being gone 10 days to get a new back light.
- JSK0
^ HARDDRIVE BACK UP