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    Slow running Apple Laptop

    My friend is having an 'Apple Mac Laptop OS X'.,RAM 4GB.

    Of late,it is running very slowly & even to open a site,it takes a long time.

    No parallel O/S is installed.

    Pl advise,how to go about it.

    If any other details to be furnished,pl advise how to get it from the Laptop itself.
    Last edited by rangarajan; May 8th, 2012 at 09:16 PM. Reason: add text

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    Might find a apple antivirus and run it. Update OS X too. There are a few bad nasties that were written just for apple computers floating around right now. A couple of them are real nasty too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Train View Post
    Might find a apple antivirus and run it. Update OS X too. There are a few bad nasties that were written just for apple computers floating around right now. A couple of them are real nasty too.
    Thank u Train.

    I have disabled Automatic Updates & now the running is comparitively much faster.

    Obiviously,as posted in the other thread,slow down perhaps due to other programs running at start & delaying Boot & subsequent open.

    But How safe it is to cancel Auto updates.

    Are there other reasons.
    Can we run TFC,Defragment in Apple.

    Where to get Free Antivirus?

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    Now you are talking about a OS that I know very little about. Now it that is the OS auto update, go get them and install them and then rei-enable the auto updates and see what happens.

    Found this...
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1338

    Sure hope that helps out.

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    Thanks.
    Did not try as the problem was solved by blocking Auto updates.

    Resolved.

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    It goes to show, the redundancy of the old belief that macs are immune to mall-ware. While their maybe far more viruses and spyware floating around in the windows-sphere, the reason mac seems to be safe from mall-ware is that the user is so limited in there interaction with the computer and 3rd party software. However, due to increased users of Mac comes more 3rd party software's and more malevolent programmers out their redirecting their focus on Macs.

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