Possible virus?

[rocinante721]

I hate to use the "V" word, but I have no explanation.

Using Safari, surfing, my computer froze. I had to manually restart.

Since then, my computer has repeatedly frozen, getting the "grey shroud" with the message that machine needs to be manually turned off/on.

Note: purged cookies, etc. No help.

iMac 17", OS X Tiger; Intel

 

[techfreak85]

dosnt really sound like a virus to me. does this only happen with Safari?

 

[bartelby]

You had a kernel panic. Does this happen often?

EDIT: sorry, just noticed the "repeatedly" word.

 

[dirt farmer]

Does it look like this?

If so, that's a kernel panic. You have either bad RAM, or some bad hardware. Do a RAM and Hardware test.

 

[rocinante721]

Does it look like this?

If so, that's a kernel panic. You have either bad RAM, or some bad hardware. Do a RAM and Hardware test.

Yes. That is it.

I have had no problem until the last 2 days.

What do I do? Specifically

 

[sushi]

Yes. That is it.

I have had no problem until the last 2 days.

What do I do? Specifically

Have you recently upgraded your RAM memory?

 

[rocinante721]

I hate to use the "V" word, but I have no explanation.

Using Safari, surfing, my computer froze. I had to manually restart.

Since then, my computer has repeatedly frozen, getting the "grey shroud" with the message that machine needs to be manually turned off/on.

Note: purged cookies, etc. No help.

iMac 17", OS X Tiger; Intel

Sorry, Leopard, not Tiger

 

[rocinante721]

Have you recently upgraded your RAM memory?

Nope.

I have done nothing except recently move a month ago & install a wireless router (though my Mac is still connected directly to web via ethernet hub).

This crash happened 2 days ago & has happened about 4 times so far, always loading a webpage.

Note: this last restart was scary. It went to the white 'apple' start-up page, shut down, & restarted on its own 3-times before it finally rebooted.

 

[Consultant]

Open Disk utility and:
repair permissions
verify disk

 

[angelwatt]

Note: this last restart was scary. It went to the white 'apple' start-up page, shut down, & restarted on its own 3-times before it finally rebooted.

That may have been from an Apple updating installing and needing to restart the machine. Certain updates do that.

 

[dirt farmer]

read this: Resolving kernel panics

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Run the Apple Hardware Test, too, to see if it's a hardware fault.