HT202234: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
Learn about Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
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Jun 9, 2012 5:29 PM in response to kristen101by MrHoffman,If you don't have a current full backup, make a disk backup. No sense losing any data, particularly if your hardware is failing.
If you're on 10.6, boot the installer DVD, and see if that shows similar symptoms. If you're on 10.7, boot the recovery partition.
And reset the SMC.
Ensure you're patched to current; use Software Update to upgrade to the most recent software.
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Jun 10, 2012 7:12 AM in response to kristen101by capaho,The model year of your iMac may be a factor, as I recall a firmware update some years ago to deal with a wake from sleep problem. You'd be better off asking about this problem in the iMac forum rather than here in the Snow Leopard Server forum.