My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan, and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds.
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here?
Peter
On 10 Aug 2022 at 08:10:51 BST, "Peter James" <[email protected]> wrote:
My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar
behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to
normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan, >> and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds. >>
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here?
Peter
Malware bytes has finished the scan and reprts no threats.
My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan, and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds.
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here?
Am 10.08.22 um 09:10 schrieb Peter James:
My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar
behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to
normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan, >> and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds. >>
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here?
Based on this information it is impoosible to diagnose from the outside. Restart your computer and start the activity monitor to see what wreaks
havoc on your Mac.
*Malwarebyte is malware*
Useful article here about using AM.
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac>
*Malwarebyte is malware*
LOL - You’re beginning to seem like someone I try to avoid!
Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on this information it is impoosible to diagnose from the outside.
Restart your computer and start the activity monitor to see what wreaks
havoc on your Mac.
Useful article here about using AM.
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac>
On 10 Aug 2022 at 09:52:41 BST, Alan B wrote:
Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on this information it is impoosible to diagnose from the outside. >>> Restart your computer and start the activity monitor to see what wreaks
havoc on your Mac.
Useful article here about using AM.
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac>
Interesting (YMMV), thanks. Shows Dropbox the second highest user of energy on
my iMac - and I very rarely use it. So in the Bin it goes. Not 'havoc', admittedly.
Haven�t used the Dropbox app for years. I�m sure I read somewhere it
installs a version of the Chrome browser which presumably runs constantly
in the background?
Peter James <[email protected]> wrote:1 TB SSD
On 10 Aug 2022 at 08:10:51 BST, "Peter James" <[email protected]> wrote: >>
My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar >>> behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to >>> normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan,
and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds. >>>
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here?
Peter
Malware bytes has finished the scan and reprts no threats.
It doesn’t seem like Malware then.
Does it have a spinning hard drive, not a SSD?
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252753807>Peter
You could also run Etrecheck and see if it brings up any issues.
My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan, and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds.
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here?
Am 10.08.22 um 11:35 schrieb Alan B:
RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10 Aug 2022 at 09:52:41 BST, Alan B wrote:
Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on this information it is impoosible to diagnose from the outside. >>>>> Restart your computer and start the activity monitor to see what wreaks >>>>> havoc on your Mac.
Useful article here about using AM.
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac>
Interesting (YMMV), thanks. Shows Dropbox the second highest user of energy on
my iMac - and I very rarely use it. So in the Bin it goes. Not 'havoc',
admittedly.
Haven’t used the Dropbox app for years. I’m sure I read somewhere it
installs a version of the Chrome browser which presumably runs constantly
in the background?
The sync-services runs always in the background. For good reasons if you
use Drop Box. If not it weighs relatively heavy on the system.
I use it for not so private things. Drop Box is one of the very few free cloud services that master all OSes. Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
I use it just for data transfers. The downside being the lousy privacy
and the limitation to three devices.
RJH <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10 Aug 2022 at 09:52:41 BST, Alan B wrote:
Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on this information it is impoosible to diagnose from the outside. >>>> Restart your computer and start the activity monitor to see what wreaks >>>> havoc on your Mac.
Useful article here about using AM.
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac>
Interesting (YMMV), thanks. Shows Dropbox the second highest user of energy on
my iMac - and I very rarely use it. So in the Bin it goes. Not 'havoc',
admittedly.
Haven’t used the Dropbox app for years. I’m sure I read somewhere it installs a version of the Chrome browser which presumably runs constantly
in the background?
On the rare occasions I use Dropbox, I access it via Safari now. I don’t use it for any ‘sensitive’ data as I agree the privacy is lousy.
On 10 Aug 2022 at 08:22:59 BST, "Alan B" <[email protected]d>
wrote:
Peter James <[email protected]> wrote:1 TB SSD
On 10 Aug 2022 at 08:10:51 BST, "Peter James" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>
My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar >>>> behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to >>>> normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan,
and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds. >>>>
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here? >>>>
Peter
Malware bytes has finished the scan and reprts no threats.
It doesn’t seem like Malware then.
Does it have a spinning hard drive, not a SSD?
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252753807>
You could also run Etrecheck and see if it brings up any issues.
Peter James <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10 Aug 2022 at 08:22:59 BST, "Alan B" <[email protected]d>
wrote:
Peter James <[email protected]> wrote:1 TB SSD
On 10 Aug 2022 at 08:10:51 BST, "Peter James" <[email protected]> wrote:
My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar >>>>> behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to >>>>> normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan,
and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds.
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here? >>>>>
Peter
Malware bytes has finished the scan and reprts no threats.
It doesn’t seem like Malware then.
Does it have a spinning hard drive, not a SSD?
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252753807>
You could also run Etrecheck and see if it brings up any issues.
Have you tried the First Aid feature in Disk Utility to checkout your internal SSD drive?
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210898>
On 10/08/2022 13:42, Alan B wrote:
On the rare occasions I use Dropbox, I access it via Safari now. I don’t >> use it for any ‘sensitive’ data as I agree the privacy is lousy.
I've replaced the Dropbox app - which is quite heavyweight as you've
noticed - with Maestral from https://maestral.app. It works in exactly
the same way, but is very lightweight. It works great on my Intel Mac
getting retired, and both M1 Macs.
On 11 Aug 2022 at 07:31:53 BST, "Alan B" <[email protected]d>
wrote:
Peter James <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10 Aug 2022 at 08:22:59 BST, "Alan B" <[email protected]d>
wrote:
Peter James <[email protected]> wrote:1 TB SSD
On 10 Aug 2022 at 08:10:51 BST, "Peter James" <[email protected]> wrote:
My iMac, Retina 4k 2019 running OS v12.5 has started to display peculiar >>>>>> behaviour. It runs very slowly for five or ten minutes, then speeds up to
normal for five or ten minutes then reverts back to slow.
I've tried running Malarebytes but it's taking forever to complete the scan,
and at time of writing had scanned 9,395 items in 6 minutes and 7 seconds.
I must have picked up some malware somehow ,so where do I go from here? >>>>>>
Peter
Malware bytes has finished the scan and reprts no threats.
It doesn’t seem like Malware then.
Does it have a spinning hard drive, not a SSD?
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252753807>
You could also run Etrecheck and see if it brings up any issues.
Have you tried the First Aid feature in Disk Utility to checkout your
internal SSD drive?
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210898>
Yes and all was reported well. The problem seems to have righted itself somehow. I am a bit confused because it was so slow for a while and very frustrating, it drove me mad.
But as I said, all now seems OK.
On 10 Aug 2022 at 09:52:41 BST, Alan B wrote:
Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on this information it is impoosible to diagnose from the outside. >>> Restart your computer and start the activity monitor to see what wreaks
havoc on your Mac.
Useful article here about using AM.
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac>
Interesting (YMMV), thanks. Shows Dropbox the second highest user of energy on
my iMac - and I very rarely use it. So in the Bin it goes. Not 'havoc', admittedly.
Chris Ridd <[email protected]> wrote:
On 10/08/2022 13:42, Alan B wrote:
On the rare occasions I use Dropbox, I access it via Safari now. I don’t >>> use it for any ‘sensitive’ data as I agree the privacy is lousy.
I've replaced the Dropbox app - which is quite heavyweight as you've
noticed - with Maestral from https://maestral.app. It works in exactly
the same way, but is very lightweight. It works great on my Intel Mac
getting retired, and both M1 Macs.
Dropbox have just released a Monterey supporting beta but Ventura is only weeks away!
<https://www.macrumors.com/2022/08/11/dropbox-mac-app-public-beta-macos-monterey/>
On 2022-08-10 09:24:00 +0000, RJH said:
On 10 Aug 2022 at 09:52:41 BST, Alan B wrote:
Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on this information it is impoosible to diagnose from the outside. >>>> Restart your computer and start the activity monitor to see what wreaks >>>> havoc on your Mac.
Useful article here about using AM.
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac>
Interesting (YMMV), thanks. Shows Dropbox the second highest user of energy on
my iMac - and I very rarely use it. So in the Bin it goes. Not 'havoc',
admittedly.
I've just had a very similar experience with an iMac being terribly
slow due to Dropbox, see the thread "Refreshing a 2012 iMac i5".
Dropbox used around half a gigabyte of memory. Seems excessive for a
file syncing utility. Once removed the iMac behaved normally again.
In article <[email protected]>, Martin-S
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dropbox used around half a gigabyte of memory. Seems excessive for a
file syncing utility. Once removed the iMac behaved normally again.
dropbox includes chrome within it which itself is well known for using
a lot of memory.
<https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/06/13/meet-the-new-dropbox/>
Am 12.08.22 um 11:36 schrieb Martin-S:
On 2022-08-10 09:24:00 +0000, RJH said:
On 10 Aug 2022 at 09:52:41 BST, Alan B wrote:
Joerg Lorenz <[email protected]> wrote:
Based on this information it is impoosible to diagnose from the outside. >>>>> Restart your computer and start the activity monitor to see what wreaks >>>>> havoc on your Mac.
Useful article here about using AM.
<https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/activity-monitor/welcome/mac>
Interesting (YMMV), thanks. Shows Dropbox the second highest user of energy on
my iMac - and I very rarely use it. So in the Bin it goes. Not 'havoc',
admittedly.
I've just had a very similar experience with an iMac being terribly
slow due to Dropbox, see the thread "Refreshing a 2012 iMac i5".
See my answer in this thread. No slow down (1% CPU load) and 327 MB RAM
(2%).
In article <[email protected]>, Martin-S
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dropbox used around half a gigabyte of memory. Seems excessive for a
file syncing utility. Once removed the iMac behaved normally again.
dropbox includes chrome within it which itself is well known for using
a lot of memory.
<https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/06/13/meet-the-new-dropbox/>
nospam <[email protected]d> wrote:
In article <[email protected]>, Martin-S
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dropbox used around half a gigabyte of memory. Seems excessive for a
file syncing utility. Once removed the iMac behaved normally again.
dropbox includes chrome within it which itself is well known for using
a lot of memory.
<https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/06/13/meet-the-new-dropbox/>
Thanks for this, it led me to iCloud folder sharing;
now I don't need Dropbox at all.
On 2022-08-12 13:39:52 +0000, [email protected] (Sn!pe) said:
Thanks for this, it led me to iCloud folder sharing;
now I don't need Dropbox at all.
I got a freebie 50GB Box account several years ago. A quick check shows
it's still working (hardly used it - not at all recently). Is it any better/worse than Dropbox? I also have 50GB iCloud, so neither of the
other two are vitally important.
On 12/08/2022 13:13, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
See my answer in this thread. No slow down (1% CPU load) and 327 MB RAM
(2%).
I have an account (free) with Dropbox but have never known it to impact
on my iMac performance.
Indeed, I can't even spot it on my 'Activity Monitor'. Perhaps I'm not looking properly. Can you provide some guidance, please?
In article <[email protected]>, Martin-S
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dropbox used around half a gigabyte of memory. Seems excessive for a
file syncing utility. Once removed the iMac behaved normally again.
dropbox includes chrome within it which itself is well known for using
a lot of memory.
<https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/06/13/meet-the-new-dropbox/>
Am 12.08.22 um 16:01 schrieb David Brooks:
On 12/08/2022 13:13, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
See my answer in this thread. No slow down (1% CPU load) and 327 MB RAM
(2%).
I have an account (free) with Dropbox but have never known it to impact
on my iMac performance.
Indeed, I can't even spot it on my 'Activity Monitor'. Perhaps I'm not
looking properly. Can you provide some guidance, please?
To see it in the activity monitor you should start Dropbox automatically
on system start.
Thanks for this, it led me to iCloud folder sharing;
now I don't need Dropbox at all.
On 12/08/2022 15:46, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
Am 12.08.22 um 16:01 schrieb David Brooks:
On 12/08/2022 13:13, Joerg Lorenz wrote:
See my answer in this thread. No slow down (1% CPU load) and 327 MB RAM >>>> (2%).
I have an account (free) with Dropbox but have never known it to impact
on my iMac performance.
Indeed, I can't even spot it on my 'Activity Monitor'. Perhaps I'm not
looking properly. Can you provide some guidance, please?
To see it in the activity monitor you should start Dropbox automatically
on system start.
Thank you. Perhaps if other folk had NOT got it set up in that way,
they'd not have had the problems they have experienced.
On 2022-08-12 13:39:52 +0000, [email protected] (Sn!pe) said:
nospam <[email protected]d> wrote:
In article <[email protected]>, Martin-S
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dropbox used around half a gigabyte of memory. Seems excessive for a
file syncing utility. Once removed the iMac behaved normally again.
dropbox includes chrome within it which itself is well known for using
a lot of memory.
<https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/06/13/meet-the-new-dropbox/>
Thanks for this, it led me to iCloud folder sharing;
now I don't need Dropbox at all.
I got a freebie 50GB Box account several years ago. A quick check shows
it's still working (hardly used it - not at all recently). Is it any better/worse than Dropbox? I also have 50GB iCloud, so neither of the
other two are vitally important.
Just had a quick look - it doesn't look like you can get a new free
Box account anymore. The 50GB iCloud account costs very little though.
On 2022-08-12 13:39:52 +0000, [email protected] (Sn!pe) said:
nospam <[email protected]d> wrote:
In article <[email protected]>, Martin-S
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dropbox used around half a gigabyte of memory. Seems excessive for a
file syncing utility. Once removed the iMac behaved normally again.
dropbox includes chrome within it which itself is well known for using
a lot of memory.
<https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/06/13/meet-the-new-dropbox/>
Thanks for this, it led me to iCloud folder sharing;
now I don't need Dropbox at all.
I got a freebie 50GB Box account several years ago. A quick check shows
it's still working (hardly used it - not at all recently). Is it any better/worse than Dropbox? I also have 50GB iCloud, so neither of the
other two are vitally important.
On 12 Aug 2022 at 15:30:13 BST, "Mark" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2022-08-12 13:39:52 +0000, [email protected] (Sn!pe) said:
Thanks for this, it led me to iCloud folder sharing;
now I don't need Dropbox at all.
I got a freebie 50GB Box account several years ago. A quick check shows
it's still working (hardly used it - not at all recently). Is it any
better/worse than Dropbox? I also have 50GB iCloud, so neither of the
other two are vitally important.
I used that for work a while ago, it's pretty lightweight as a client
and never gave me any grief. So much better than Dropbox, which was
great a decade ago but has been awful since about 2015.
On 2022-08-12 15:17:52 +0000, Alan B
<[email protected]d> said:
Jaimie Vandenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12 Aug 2022 at 15:30:13 BST, "Mark" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2022-08-12 13:39:52 +0000, [email protected] (Sn!pe) said:
Thanks for this, it led me to iCloud folder sharing;
now I don't need Dropbox at all.
I got a freebie 50GB Box account several years ago. A quick check shows >>>> it's still working (hardly used it - not at all recently). Is it any
better/worse than Dropbox? I also have 50GB iCloud, so neither of the
other two are vitally important.
I used that for work a while ago, it's pretty lightweight as a client
and never gave me any grief. So much better than Dropbox, which was
great a decade ago but has been awful since about 2015.
Yeah I had account with them years ago but (stupidly it now seems) I
cancelled it in favour of Dropbox. I just don’t use Dropbox now and rely on
iCloud should the need arise.
I think I got it as some sort of promo offer. Just checked - 9 years
ago! Have a few things in there, but still says 50GB free so they can't
be that big. I only started using the free Dropbox as I found a 'hack'
to get someone on Fivver to use up your affiliate codes to max out
storage (to 21GB) for ....£5. Must take some time to clear out all that stuff out. Lots of junk in there.
Jaimie Vandenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12 Aug 2022 at 15:30:13 BST, "Mark" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2022-08-12 13:39:52 +0000, [email protected] (Sn!pe) said:
Thanks for this, it led me to iCloud folder sharing;
now I don't need Dropbox at all.
I got a freebie 50GB Box account several years ago. A quick check shows
it's still working (hardly used it - not at all recently). Is it any
better/worse than Dropbox? I also have 50GB iCloud, so neither of the
other two are vitally important.
I used that for work a while ago, it's pretty lightweight as a client
and never gave me any grief. So much better than Dropbox, which was
great a decade ago but has been awful since about 2015.
Yeah I had account with them years ago but (stupidly it now seems) I cancelled it in favour of Dropbox. I just don’t use Dropbox now and rely on iCloud should the need arise.
In article <[email protected]>, Jaimie Vandenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
another option is nextcloud, where you can host your own, for as much
space as you want.
<https://nextcloud.com>
Remembering that the power to run the server that does it may cost you
several hundred pounds a year.
maybe if that's all it does, but if you run it on an existing computer
or nas that you already have, it's effectively free. it even works on a raspberry pi.
another option is nextcloud, where you can host your own, for as much
space as you want.
<https://nextcloud.com>
Remembering that the power to run the server that does it may cost you several hundred pounds a year.
In article <td5rqg$2hgvd$[email protected]>,
Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:
Just had a quick look - it doesn't look like you can get a new free
Box account anymore. The 50GB iCloud account costs very little though.
another option is nextcloud, where you can host your own, for as much
space as you want.
<https://nextcloud.com>
another option is nextcloud, where you can host your own, for as much
space as you want.
<https://nextcloud.com>
Remembering that the power to run the server that does it may cost you
several hundred pounds a year.
maybe if that's all it does, but if you run it on an existing computer
or nas that you already have, it's effectively free. it even works on a raspberry pi.
Yes, I have a bunch of now-powered-off servers in my cellar and have considered the Pi route.
On 2022-08-12 17:20:21 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<[email protected]> said:
On 12 Aug 2022 at 16:36:45 BST, "nospam" <[email protected]d> wrote:
In article <td5rqg$2hgvd$[email protected]>,
Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:
Just had a quick look - it doesn't look like you can get a new free
Box account anymore. The 50GB iCloud account costs very little though.
another option is nextcloud, where you can host your own, for as much
space as you want.
<https://nextcloud.com>
Remembering that the power to run the server that does it may cost you
several hundred pounds a year.
£1.79/month for iCloud is quite good value :)
Cheers - Jaimie
I always thought the Apple iCloud pricing was pretty good.
On 12 Aug 2022 at 16:36:45 BST, "nospam" <[email protected]d> wrote:
In article <td5rqg$2hgvd$[email protected]>,
Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:
Just had a quick look - it doesn't look like you can get a new free
Box account anymore. The 50GB iCloud account costs very little though.
another option is nextcloud, where you can host your own, for as much
space as you want.
<https://nextcloud.com>
Remembering that the power to run the server that does it may cost you several hundred pounds a year.
�1.79/month for iCloud is quite good value :)
Cheers - Jaimie
I think I got it as some sort of promo offer. Just checked - 9 years
ago! Have a few things in there, but still says 50GB free so they can't
be that big. I only started using the free Dropbox as I found a 'hack'
to get someone on Fivver to use up your affiliate codes to max out
storage (to 21GB) for ....£5. Must take some time to clear out all that stuff out. Lots of junk in there.
Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2022-08-12 17:20:21 +0000, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<[email protected]> said:
On 12 Aug 2022 at 16:36:45 BST, "nospam" <[email protected]d> wrote:
In article <td5rqg$2hgvd$[email protected]>,
Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:
another option is nextcloud, where you can host your own, for as much
Just had a quick look - it doesn't look like you can get a new free >>>>> Box account anymore. The 50GB iCloud account costs very little though. >>>>
space as you want.
<https://nextcloud.com>
Remembering that the power to run the server that does it may cost you
several hundred pounds a year.
�1.79/month for iCloud is quite good value :)
Cheers - Jaimie
I always thought the Apple iCloud pricing was pretty good.
I pay 79p a month for 50GB.
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