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I was playing a game on my MacBook Air which I got 2-3 weeks ago and it froze for 1 minute then shut off and when it came back on it said bad magic error. Im very worried that a virus is now on my computer. Has this happened to anyone else. is something wrong with my computer?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Aug 17, 2020 9:45 PM

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Aug 17, 2020 11:19 PM in response to macbookairuser150

Bad Magic is a series of books to the best of my knowledge. Does that ring a bell? Do you read books on your MacBook Air and could one of those books be open in the background while you were playing your game? The game could have crashed and then the subsequent Book crash message appears on the reboot. This is just my theory. Of course if you do not read any books on your MacBook Air then my theory is out of the window.


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