Pinwheel of death returns

TuckerdogAVL

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Was looking for anything recent, maybe in 2011 or now, regarding Snow Leopard and the pinwheel of death. It's returned. Since this is something people have talked about since about 2006, obviously it's something that requires a fix every now and then. I've searched my notes and all my posts and can't find anything so perhaps someone can respond and I'll print it out this time? I did recall something about permissions, and I ran ONYX...more on that in a bit.

Nothing has changed (well, nothing I know about, but with google making changes to privacy and facecrook and twitter and all the rest, who knows?) in the last 90 days...this is a new 650gb hard drive with 200gb of space...

This morning I was getting the pinwheel ever 6 or so seconds, stall for 3, okay for maybe 10, or 6, then stall for 3 or 5, then okay for 6 or so, then stall.

Every morning I do have to unplug the router and the booster router for some reason for the past month. Maybe a neighbor bought something that interferes. But, in order for my computer to find the wireless printer 8 feet away from it, I have to go thru a reset every day.

Nothing is loading in the b/g in the systems prefs. Everything's been fine. So, based on everything being fine, then suddenly I'm getting stalls again, where again are places to look?

I ran ONYX and it seemed to change the initial problem to now....we go about 2 minutes than spin for 30 seconds.

Look forward the "Pinwheel spinning out of control" responses again.
 
Can you open Console (in /Applications/Utilities) and copy the output that is occurring during this slowdown?
 
I'll give it a shot. It seems to have smoothed out a bit. I closed out Firefox for awhile and checked some boxes that weren't and unchecked some that were...also deleted some add ons I wasn't using. I used Safari and it didn't seem to be having as much of an issue. Then went back to Firefox (I'm writing you right now, and we haven't pinwheeled yet).
 
There seems to be a lot of:
Throttling respawn: will start in 10 second messages, from LinkScannerAgent (???) LoaderAgent and com.zeobit.Mackeeperhelper....and I am assuming these are commercial announcement attacks? (I set on the Firefox - block reported attack sites which apparently wasn't set for some reason).

PS Just did a search for Mackeeper...and found a couple files that I dragged to the trash (including a pkg folder). I have an app installed that **supposedly** removes all files from your Mac if you simply drag to the trash vs. having to go and find everything. Maybe this will help? Haven't been experiencing the pinwheel since I checked the "block known attack sites" however.
 
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The best App ever for finding all traces of an application and letting you manipulate them is "EasyFind".
Configure it to search for Files+Folders+Ignore Case+Package Contents+Invisible Files and it will totally get rid of all traces of an application.
BTW it's also free.
 
I've not read ANY good reports about Mackeeper (other than those from the company that wants to sell you that POS. :D )
Along with using EasyFind - here's a page with fairly complete method to remove Mackeeper from your system (which I would recommend that you do get rid of MacKeeper). http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/
Notice that page refers to Mackeeper as 'malware' - and you can use that terminology to help you decide when you should use Mackeeper... (and that would be - never!)

If you still have problems, the log listing from the time of the pinwheel can help - and you can also have your Activity Monitor open, to review when your system slows down. That can also give you clues about the source of those slowdowns.
 
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