Once a day my curser freezes or I get a grey message to restart my computer. It doesn't seem to happen at times of large memory usage. It happens in a multitude of applications.
The only error message (besides restart) mentions that my date is wrong. And it I have found it wrong several times. It does this on automatic or manual settings and the date/time lock is often open.
Is this a virus?
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Jump to PostOnce a day my curser freezes or I get a grey message to restart my computer.
This is a kernel panic.
As noted above, RAM can be a culprit. Particularly if you recently updated to a new version of the OS from a previous one that 'worked fine'. Newer …
Jump to PostIf it was upgrades that caused problems does that mean I should not download upgrades when they become available?
No.. we should simply investigate the cause of the problem and try to rectify them. Not upgrading/updating is not a good option. Most often these upgrades/updates contain imperative security patches.
Jump to PostSo, now 2 of you are getting daily kernel panics?
1) Please (each of you) post your specs. Hardware and OS.
2) There should be a file in /Library/Logs/ called panic.log. This contains the output from the kernel panic written to a text file. Please take the last …
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