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If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in the browser window, and you can then copy it. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.Ħ. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. You may have started the computer in 'safe' mode. The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. ☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. ☞ Paste into the window of another application. ☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed: Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. But variations of it have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. You may not be able to understand the script yourself.

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Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does. In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it. You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. If you prefer, you can act on it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer.

It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.Ģ. The process is much less complicated than the description. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.ĭon't be put off by the complexity of these instructions. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. I have a guess a 3 part question if anyone can help:ġ) Does anyone know what this is and what I can do if it is bad?Ģ) Is there any easier way than just manually to search recently modified folders? I didn't know if it was a virus or something that would affect my other folders, but I basically just manually checked everything in finder to make sure no folders besides the ones I deleted were modified.ģ) Should I use a virus scan or something, and would anyone be able to direct me to a reputable, possibly free, one?ġ. I removed it and deleted it, as well as another file that was downloaded with it, but want to make sure I'm all set.

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I usually just leave them but I accidentally clicked on the download button and it downloaded something and then opened it.Īn Application called 'K9 Mac Optimizer' was from then on in my application folder. I guess it was for a BitTorrent (which I have no idea what it is) and it brought me to some download page. Hi I don't really know much about Mac's so I would really appreciate some help.

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