My Mac computer has been running slow lately (specifically the pinwheel thing will freeze up for a minute or so each time I go to a website at a time and I
can't use my cursor). Could this be a virus? Also is there a virus scan for Mac computers that I can download for free?
Virus scan for Mac computer?
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Posts: 1588 (09/10/2009 8:38 PM) |
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luckylauren |
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Posts: 21414 (09/10/2009 8:41 PM) |
Macs aren't supposed to get viruses.
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 Basez26 |
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Posts: 608 (09/10/2009 8:44 PM) |
It's not a virus. My Macbook did the same thing--and it was my hard drive crashing. Back up your stuff and get to the Genius Bar asap.
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Lyric762 |
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Posts: 1589 (09/10/2009 8:46 PM) |
Basez26 wrote: Do I have too much stuff on my hardrive? Will this go away if I delete documents/pics/mp3's/programs? |
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kerlifries |
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Posts: 15953 (09/10/2009 8:47 PM) |
mine does that sometimes, usually I just reboot the wireless router and then its fine.
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Posts: 561 (09/10/2009 8:48 PM) |
There are a couple of mac viruses out there but I doubt you have it.
You could try a couple things. Download Maintenance 3.8 and run it. That sometimes speeds things up for me. Here's an article about speeding up OS X. You might also want to do a hardware test to make sure the hardware is all fine. Oh! Also, one time my boyfriend's mac was being ridiculously slow and it turned out that his RAM needed to be reseated for whatever reason. (Reseated just means taking it out and putting it back in). If none of this works it could be a dying hard drive. My macbook hard drive started to fail and it was acting really wonky. It took 3 trips to the Apple store before they'd believe me that there was a hardware problem, and I had to prove it to them myselves that the hard drive was failing. 
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bethanyboo |
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Posts: 562 (09/10/2009 8:50 PM) |
Lyric762 wrote:If your hard drive is dying it won't help! |
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Posts: 609 (09/10/2009 8:54 PM) |
It's not because of room on the hd. Do you have the protection plan? Mine ended up dying while I was at the Genius Bar and they were trying to re-install
my OS. So I got lucky and they transferred everything to my new hd for free (they charge even when it's under warranty). So back up and get it in.
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