Thanks Lee! At this point, we had to do a clean install. It's still very buggy, lots of spinning beach balls when you click on anything. Even after the clean install.. Typing this I can type a few words and the spinning beach balls appears.
It may not have been a "virus" but that's what I leapt to. My son was on the computer downloading music the nite before this all happened. He restarted the pc "from restart" after he was done and that's when the problems began. So I "assumed" it was virus related because of that. Nothing is in it's right place, even after the install. Every time I have to restart, it changes something -- either fonts, icons, screen savers, desktop backgrounds -- you name it-- on every restart something gets changed. After the clean install, I left the room because it was going to take an hour or so. I was in the kitchen fixing dinner, and heard the "tones" that it had restarted. After dinner, I came back to work on it again... and had a "desktop".. and not a screen to select for a backup! It picked one for me! I immediately did a software update, installed those. It restarted. Again, things were changed but it did restart. I went to time machine.. and it was wiped! Nothing there! Checked my hard drive... everything from Time Machine was there! I don't know what is going on... I'm getting lots of beachballs still. I just finished verifying and repairing disk permissions. So, going to reboot and see if things are any better. It's not responding instantly when I click on anything... takes forever for it to respond to the simplest of tasks. When I "shut down" it takes about 10 minutes to get to the log in screen. I'm getting a ton of pop ups saying "it's not responding" wait or quit while I'm typing this. Apparently, the clean install wasn't so clean. So..... that's where I am at the moment. Judy On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 8, 2012, at 5:46 PM, JJ wrote: > > Apparently it got a virus. Can't even get into terminal on it even in > Safe Mode. Spotlight doesn't work either. SO will have to wipe it, > reinstall and hopefully, time machine will work. It won't now! > > > Why do you say this? Is there any evidence of a virus? It would be a > strange virus indeed causing the symptoms you describe. Most malware tries > not to cause visible disruption. > > Just weird that wifi works on every other device but I can't ping the > router to see what is connected on any device that can connect to the > internet. Nothing works on the imac though -- says it's connected by > ethernet and airport -- at the same time even. I can deselect and neither > works either. > > > Because you can’t see your router at 192.168.0.1, doesn't mean the router > isn't there. That's just the most common address. For example, I keep mine > at 192.168.1.255 for obscure reasons. Go into another device that's working > and look for your router address in the network settings. It will be called > router or gateway. > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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