I was going to suggest that it might be your hard drive going bad as well. Other things to check:
. Full hard drive . Activity Viewer (in your Utilities folder) to see if there was something else running that was eating up your processor. Suspects: Flash running in an open browser window, iTunes store open in iTunes, online backup services such as Carbonite, BackBlaze, JungleDisk, etc. . Other accounts running in Fast User Switching Basically, I would restart the machine and don't load any programs and look at Activity Viewer and see if it's something running that you didn't know about. If that doesn't give you any answers, then I am suspecting a hardware issue, such as a dying hard drive or ram module. There are other, less likely, possibilities, but those are my first choices. BTW, it is NOT a virus. Ain't no such thing. j. On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Dan Crutcher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9, 10 & 11 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next meeting: July 26, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
