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smells like malware
So there I was on my Mac (Mini), typing something in Chrome, when I suddenly got a pop-up that said "you need to restart" in about six different languages. The keyboard and mouse were unresponsive. That sure smelled like malware, except that I'm pretty careful about that, haven't installed anything lately, and haven't visited any new or suspect web sites lately. So I pulled out my phone to see what Google had to say (yay for device:person ratios higher than 1:1!).
I've had this Mac for about five years. I've never seen a kernel panic before. Huh, weird. I wonder what caused it. I wonder if there's anything I should do about it (other than report it to Apple, which I did when it asked me if I wanted to). Google is not so helpful with these questions, at least so far.
It occurs to me that Apple could probably make that pop-up look less like malware and more like it came from them, except wouldn't we expect any malware author to do that too? So maybe that didn't matter and we each learn what this looks like the hard way once.
I've had this Mac for about five years. I've never seen a kernel panic before. Huh, weird. I wonder what caused it. I wonder if there's anything I should do about it (other than report it to Apple, which I did when it asked me if I wanted to). Google is not so helpful with these questions, at least so far.
It occurs to me that Apple could probably make that pop-up look less like malware and more like it came from them, except wouldn't we expect any malware author to do that too? So maybe that didn't matter and we each learn what this looks like the hard way once.
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I really should get myself a can of compressed air. It's possible there's dust in there, after all, but I'm sure not going to open the case on something as small and finicky as a Mini. But there may be things I can do from the outside.
(BTW, I use a milk crate, inverted over the Mini and the external drive, to keep cats off of it. So at least I don't have cats sleeping on it and depositing hair therein.)
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