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time consuming spinning

The spinning occurs almost all the time. Like just now, I accidentally add 3 ls to all, there was a delay, then spinning. In deleting a contact, I hit delete, a hesitation, a spin, then finally deleted. Right now I'm working on my contacts. I just deleted an entry starting with W. After the spinning and delete, it popped back to like the 10th A entry. I'm thinking I have some kind of virus. What think you? Just now I wanted to verify it is Monterey for a later question, spinning, lots especially when writing this, then pop up IMac hardware screen.


iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Sep 15, 2024 7:14 AM

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Posted on Sep 15, 2024 8:40 AM

It's unlikely that you have a virus, though you could well have aquired some adware or something else that's eating up CPU cycles. If you run Activity Monitor and take a look at CPU usage, do you see anything that's taking an inordinate amount of CPU time, and if so what is the app or process? Have you done any of the usual steps such as rebooting your Mac and checking for any available updates?


If you want to check for viruses or other critters, download Malwarebytes:


https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac


and have it take a look at your system. The free version is all you need to do manual scans.


Regards.

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Sep 15, 2024 8:40 AM in response to 2ndHandSammy

It's unlikely that you have a virus, though you could well have aquired some adware or something else that's eating up CPU cycles. If you run Activity Monitor and take a look at CPU usage, do you see anything that's taking an inordinate amount of CPU time, and if so what is the app or process? Have you done any of the usual steps such as rebooting your Mac and checking for any available updates?


If you want to check for viruses or other critters, download Malwarebytes:


https://www.malwarebytes.com/mac


and have it take a look at your system. The free version is all you need to do manual scans.


Regards.

time consuming spinning

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