Anyone else seeing this on their Macs? (Mac virus?)
Not sure if this is GB material or not, but it's odd enough and starting to happen often enough that I figure I'd ask here.
Lately at work I've had 5 seperate Macs, running OS 9 run into a strange slow-down problem.
If the user launches IE, ALL MS Office apps. will suddenly slow down, and begin this jerky, paused/unpause type behavior. I've never seen this before, and the only way I've found to fix it is a reformat, reinstall of everything, which is unacceptable (unless absolutely necessary).
Reinstalling Office/IE makes no difference. I've dumped every preference file I can think of relating to the two apps. to no avail. I've rebuilt the desktop, zapped pram and blessed the system folder. Nothing seems to work.
Now that I'm starting to see this crop up all over the place though I'm wondering if this isn't a system type problem but instead a virus type problem.
Anyone else out there run into this in the past? Whatever it is it's hit 5 machines in as many days, and I'd like to nip this in the bud, as there are still dozens of OS 9 machines in action.
-alcimedes
[ 11-25-2002: Message edited by: alcimedes ]</p>
Lately at work I've had 5 seperate Macs, running OS 9 run into a strange slow-down problem.
If the user launches IE, ALL MS Office apps. will suddenly slow down, and begin this jerky, paused/unpause type behavior. I've never seen this before, and the only way I've found to fix it is a reformat, reinstall of everything, which is unacceptable (unless absolutely necessary).
Reinstalling Office/IE makes no difference. I've dumped every preference file I can think of relating to the two apps. to no avail. I've rebuilt the desktop, zapped pram and blessed the system folder. Nothing seems to work.
Now that I'm starting to see this crop up all over the place though I'm wondering if this isn't a system type problem but instead a virus type problem.
Anyone else out there run into this in the past? Whatever it is it's hit 5 machines in as many days, and I'd like to nip this in the bud, as there are still dozens of OS 9 machines in action.
-alcimedes
[ 11-25-2002: Message edited by: alcimedes ]</p>
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Can't tell you the last time I saw OS 9, been a while, sorry.
After a while I just sort of stopped or I didnt notice it anymore... but yes... it is a virus... called Microsoft... ooooh... how cliche' :-P
Perhaps then you can move over some prefs from Previous Sytem Folder and isolate the troublemaker so you don't have to clean install every troubled machine