What is the cause of the Spinning Wheel of Death (SWOD) and how can we fix it?
I get the SWOD using Safari, Mail, Google chrome, Firefox, Mathematica, and other programs. This cannot be a browser plug-in issues as other forums suggest. I suspect a windows process at the root but I don't enough to know how to trace. Does anyone know what's causeing this epidemic?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Get rid of that antivirus. Pick either Parallels or VMWare, but not both.
avast is not good?
The University where I take classes requires some sort of anti-virus for computers to access their network. Is there another free one which is good? AVG?
How did you uninstall it? You must use a vendor-provided uninstaller or uninstallation instructions. You can't just delete files.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Your advice about and instructions for removing MacKeeper were spot on!
MacKeeper was a robber of TIME, $$$, and SPEED.
Please start your own question. There doesn't appear to be any obvious issues from your EtreCheck report. Your problem might be a challenging one and you deserve your own thread.
Yosemite changes things. All 3rd party software has to be checked for compatibility and Carbonite is a known problem.
Many thanks MrHoffman... deleted and blocked as recommended... all well so far... thanks again !
Thank you for your reply. Is there any way to find out what 3rd party program would have put something in that sysctl.conf file?
Well, if it's not too big, print it out & copy it here.
from /applications/utilities/terminal
cd to what ever directory sysctl.conf is in.
cat sysctl.conf
I did not start a new discussion as I thought this may be the reason or one of the reasons for my SWOD.
What is the cause of the Spinning Wheel of Death (SWOD) and how can we fix it?
