Nora, A slow-running computer can also be caused by RAM being maxed out, or even by a hard drive that has some corruption or is going bad. Did you run Disk Utility (Verify and/or Repair) on the drive? In any case, I would be sure I had a good backup. Good luck and let us know what you find out.
Dan > That is the step they made me go through before I could resign onto my > account. Not sure I want a phone call every time I want to sign on. I will > have to think about that, however it does make sense. I was just shocked to > have this happen. So maybe the inconvenience would be worth it. They had me > also go into a screen showing sessions on my email account. I could see the > China connection as plain as day as one of the sessions. That is when they > had me sign out and sign back in under the 2 step verification. I was also > forced to change my password to something in the Strong category. > > By the way, all, my Disk Warrior was NOT frozen. It finally finished. Now I > will see if my computer speed improves. I could not believe it would take > that long to repair the permissions, but apparently it did. > > Nora > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Rick Burnett <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not aware of any viruses (viri?) that can infect Mac OS X yet, but I > highly recommend turning on 2-step authentication in Gmail. It's well worth > the extra hassle. > > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Nora Probasco <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an odd situation with my Mac. In the past couple of days it has been > running VERY slow. I know that usually means that I need to fix permissions. > So when I ran Disk Utility, it said it would take 1 day and 6 hours to do it. > I left it on over night and part of an afternoon and it didn't seem to do > much. So I closed out of that and ran Diskwarrior having it check files as > well as fix permissions. I left it on over night and the next afternoon it > seemed to be stuck about 4/5ths through. I closed out and decided to run it > again last night. It did the same thing. Otherwise I can do what I want on > the computer. What concerns me is that I am afraid this may be a virus. Never > having had one I just don't know. I had another strange incident where > someone from China hacked into my gmail account and sent many spam email from > my account. Gmail froze the account, made me change my password and stopped > emails from being sent from that account for 24 hrs. I am wondering if I may > have also gotten some virus or something from that as it happened around the > same time. I have Virus Barrier which I could activate again, however, I want > to make sure that is what it may be. > > Nora > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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