Early 2008 MacBook Pro running extremely slow with mountain lion

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Early 2008 MacBook Pro running extremely slow with mountain lion

I have an early 2008 MacBook Pro. Worked fine for the longest time, upgraded to mountain lion recently and noticed a big performance dip, so I upgraded my RAM from 4gb to 8. Recently after that, I tried to verify my disk and disk utility told me to boot into recovery mode to fix the issue, and I did. Since then, my computer has been running INSANELY slow. My CPU is always running at around 95%, without a single program running. I open up activity manager and the only process taking up a significant amount of CPU is InterCheck. It seems the main thing that triggers the problem is opening a browser window, whether its chrome or safari, it just sets it off. Any help?

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), 8gb RAM

Posted on Mar 3, 2013 6:51 PM

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arthur

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Mar 3, 2013 7:10 PM in response to zackfromlenexa

Intercheck, which is part of Sophos, is known for this. Try turning sophos off and restart.

If that doesn't fix it, take a look at this: Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue

I'd try:

1. make a new test user and see if the problem persists.

2. repair your hard drive and permissions

2.5 try a safe boot again

3. do the cache folder thing recommended in the article above.

4. if that doesn't work: reinstall OSX

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Answer 2

Mar 4, 2013 8:36 AM in response to arthur

I had deleted Sophos before, but I guess I hadn't removed all the files from the Library folder and whatnot. I just made sure it was all deleted and this seems to have fixed the problem. Thank you so much!

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