IMac (Intel) :: Can Malware Damage / Destroy A DVD
Sep 9, 2014
iMac 20 inch early 2008. OS X 10.9.4, 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4BG 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM.Several of my DVDs have stopped playing on my iMac. Running a scan with ClamXav identified and quarantined trojans one of which was (FLV_Media_Player.exe).The DVDs in question will still show the identifying titles but will not play the programs, instead stating that the content is now in unrecognised format.MY internal and external DVD players will still run other of my DVDs.Is the trojan likely to be the cause? Can the damaged DVDs infect other playing systems? Can the damaged DVDs be recovered?
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Mac OS X (10.7)
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Sep 7, 2014
Visited a site that redirected to [URL] ...., this redirected has a pop-up that states "Microsoft detected Security Error, Due to Suspicious Activity.I am currently using Google Chrome.
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Sep 2, 2014
Last week I got a malware attack from opening up a Facebook message. This caused my iMac to run very slow and to crash all the time. I ran the latest security update which found and removed the malware itself. But still my iMac is running very slow and crashing when doing two jobs at once. Â
Any reason as to why?Is it still infected? or has the malware corrupted my hd or memory?Â
My iMac details:Â
Version 10.6.8Â
Processor 3.06
Memory 4gbÂ
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 5, 2010
As a prospective 27" i7 iMac owner, I've been following the thread on the yellow tinge issues for awhile now. Hoping that Apple had addressed the issue, I finally took the plunge and ordered my system on 1/20 and just got my shipping notification yesterday.
As I wait for it to arrive, I wanted to share some thoughts that came to mind after I read this review of a Samsung LED television a few days ago:
Getting the LED white light to travel from the edges to behind the LCD panel requires an optical wave guide that twists the light 90 degrees. This is no easy feat to perfect and Samsung hasn't managed to completely nail it: screen uniformity wasn't perfect when viewing a full white screen test pattern. On rare occasions, when viewing content with white areas at the top or bottom edge or a blue sky, this non-uniformity gave the screen edge a schmutzy (dirty) appearance. If this is an issue for a large TV then it may also be a problem for the iMac's 27-inch display. This got me thinking about what a Gizmodo reader mentioned last week in this article:
I now am fairly certain that the yellowing of the display is a manufacturing defect involving the distance between a layer of material used to diffuse the LED backlight and the LCD panel. To show a perfectly even color, this light scattering panel has to be absolutely flat and free of any warping, kinking, or thickness defects. It is this layer that I believe is at fault, and causes the color to drift and give the perception of yellow stripes, fields, and corners.
This would be absolutely consistent with the reports of horizontal and vertical stripes (a vertical or horizontal kink) or corners (a bad tuck). I believe these defects may not appear in the factory. Rather, with the rough handling the monitors receive when shipped this layer gets knocked out of alignment.Something to think about with the iMac is that it's shipping weight and bulk is a whole lot heavier than a typical monitor and the LCD panel is wedged between and fixed to metal, glass and the logic board and components behind it. Now I've seen how the FedEx and UPS guys handle packages coming to my house and office...factor in a trip all the way from Shanghai for a mega parcel and I'm sure there's a lot rough handling that the iMac has to endure. I think it's entirely possible that the backlight diffuser is getting warped in transit, perhaps at certain contact points like the lower corners. Heat from the system behind might make the problem appear worse over time as some users have commented.
If this is the case, then it would explain why some folks are getting their 5th and 6th yellow-tinged iMacs whereas others are fine. Apple could do all the QA in the world on the factory floor but it wouldn't help if the problem occurs during shipment.
Bottom line is that this would be a serious product design flaw which would take alot longer than a few weeks to fix and retool for. The only other solution would be for Apple to replace the LCD panels for those machines on which the diffuser was warped during shipment, which appears to be the direction they are heading.
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Jul 12, 2010
after having my imac for almost 3 yrs im having problems just after being online for 5 to 10 minutes it RESTARTS on its own and it keeps doing it unless i shut it down some days it work fine and some it don't or it will work half way through the day. went to the disk utility and did everything and it didn't find a problem so what can it be. someone mention something to be bout the POWER SUPPLY, AND ANOTHER SAY ITS PROBABLY OVER HEATING. when i put the disk in it at start up and press *D* to run that test it NEVER FINISH it restarts. also found damage files what are they?
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May 29, 2012
How does a hard drive get damage?
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iMac
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Oct 19, 2010
Me being the usual paranoid person I am, I'm worried that I might be doing damage to my 27" iMac that I've had for a few months after reading a thread over in the iPhone forum. In the thread for the iPhone someone was using windex to clean his iPhone and he was being warned about rubbing off some kind of coating. I use the little bottle of eyeglass cleaner that came with my eyeglasses and a microfiber clothing thinking that if it's not supposed to scratch my glasses it won't scratch the screen either. I'm gonna switch over to warm water from here on out, but did I do any damage thus far? I don't believe the iMac glass has any kind of coating but I may be mistaken.
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May 1, 2012
I transferred some Garageband files from my old iMac to my new one. I opened up a song to listen (it had been about 4 months) to it and I forgot that the monitor was on. I am assuming that feedback protection was on, as there was nasty and extremely loud feedback for about 2.5 seconds before the "feedback detected" message popped up. The volume on the Mac was at between 60 and 75 percent up.Â
I am slightly concerned about damage to the speakers. Everything sounds ok, but I noticed a slight tinny, feedback sound (on the highs) on certain songs. It could have easily just been part of the songs I listened to, as some were self-recordings of not great quality. Others (acoustic) did not seem to have that problem.Â
I understand feedback can be dangerous, but the fact that Garageband caught it fairly quickly, there was no pop or buzz, and I still have working speakers makes me feel a bit better. In short: am I just being paranoid, or does this warrant a trip to the Apple Store to have them take a look?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jul 29, 2009
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Mar 29, 2012
I have a strange thing on my MAC, all my JPG picture on my the HDD destroy the pixel one by one, from the bottom left in horizontal lines (it happen only with the old pictures archives). I take one month to destroy 1cm of the jpg picture !!At the edge ther is a mix random colors. And where it is destroy it's al grey.It started 5 year ago with my first Mac OS X, then i copy all my files to a new Mac and the "virus" or problem came with it !!! A year ago i got my third computer, coppied all my files and there the "virus" didn't work, but i remain with the old pictures, eaten half by a unknow thing.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Work
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Jul 2, 2012
My 2.33gh intel core 2 is acting erratic. The finder quits, stalls and freezes...it turns off and then reappears. Programs fail. adobe will not run. It was on during the huge electrical storm last weekend. It started acting like this after. It was on a surge protector, but those are not 100%.
I can get a ways into backing up files. I am attempting to install Lion, but I did not journal the partition. And It looks like I have to clean install and erase the HD. If power surge did damage, software will not work. Does the finder issue look like electrical damage?
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iPhone 3GS, iOS 4.3.2
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Apr 6, 2012
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Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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Apr 6, 2012
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 9, 2012
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Mar 1, 2012
When I turn on my iMac the apple logo appears behind what looks like jail bars then a dark shade rolls down the screen then tiny squares appear all over screen with error message to restart if it fails to restart manually, which it does. Cannot get past this point.Tried command R to no avail.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), iOS 5.0.1
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 7, 2012
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 14, 2012
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
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May 27, 2012
I have toruble viewing Youtube videos and some other videos on the web. I uninstalled Adobe Flash, v.11.2.202.233 and tried to install the latest (at the time) v. 11.2.202.235 but get the "spinning ball" treatment and no progress on installation. Is my problem related to the Flashback malware or Adobe Flash or Java app? I believe someone or Apple posted a thread on how to determine if one's computer has the Flashback malware.I am running Mac OSX 10.7.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Aug 22, 2014
I'm having trouble with Browsers. I rotate between Safari, Aurora, and Chrome. But all three of them eventually choke of resources and hog the cpu. Sometimes quitting the broswer works but most of the time, I reboot of OS X is needed to clean up the resource logjam.My practice of using a lot of windows and tabs is at least part of it. But if varys on different days.  Thist week began a new bothersome and worrisome behavior that has malware fingerprints. Sometimes when I click on a link on a window that is "normal" size (say 60% height and 60% width of screen), a full screen pops up over everything and something I didn't ask for shows up. There are several cases of what shows up.Â
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), 27-inch Mid 2011 2.7 Ghz Intel Core
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Apr 14, 2012
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May 29, 2012
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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Apr 22, 2009
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Dec 11, 2010
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