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macOS 11.6.1 (Big Sur) weird freeze -- what just happened?

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ghanwani

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This is the first time I have had this happen.

I was watching a video on YouTube in Chrome when suddenly my WiFi was disabled and I had several screens (see attached) prompting me to enter a password so that some process could get access to my keychain.

I canceled out of all of them, noticed that the menu bar at the top was gone and the keyboard had gone non-responsive. I ended up shutting down by pressing the power button. On reboot everything looks OK so far, but I did have to go in and manually re-enable WiFi.

Any idea what just happened? Should I be concerned about malware?

Thanks.
 

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