JJ-
You just explained what the problem is. The music young people now
fancy is worse than a virus. Tell you son to stop downloading the
stuff, as it is polluting your computer.
Neal
On Jun 11, 2012, at 12:33 PM, JJ wrote:
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.
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