- Sep 23, 2013
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Greetings all,
I have a late 2013, 21.5" iMac that was running just fine with High Sierra. I decided to upgrade to Catalina (not sure why at this point). I did an upgrade, not a clean install.
Everything seemed to work fine for 2 to 3 weeks, and then I started having issues with Firefox. It would simply hang, force quit would close it, but I would have to restart to even try to use it again.
Then I noticed things like emptying the trash would require a relaunch of finder to complete the process.
I had installed two programs just before all this happened, but removing them did not solve the issue. The programs were both recommended by several websites: itsyCal and Carbiner Elements. The first adds a pop-up calendar to the menu bar and the second allowed me to change the behaviour of the Home and End keys.
I tried to repair the OS using Command-R, but the issues would re-appear after a few hours of use.
Yesterday, I tried a reinstall of the OS. It seemed to work. Then, today, I clicked by user name, then Login Window, as I was leaving the computer for a while - and I had Firefox and a couple of other apps open. When I returned, Firefox seemed to hang, I clicked on links they did not work, I clicked on tabs, they did not change. I Quit Firefox, opened it up again and it seems fine.
A few hours later I downloaded a couple of zip files from a legit site...I double-click on the zip file to extract the PDFs and I get a message that says: "Stuffit Expander.app will damage your computer. You should move it to trash."
The dialogue box includes a checkbox: "Report malware to Apple to protect other users."
The two buttons available are "Move to Trash" or "Cancel". I have only cancelled for now.
I searched the message on Google and got 0 results! Obviously it is a new thing.
So, it this Catalina deciding that and old stand-by app is bad; or is Stuffit actually bad; or what?
I have a late 2013, 21.5" iMac that was running just fine with High Sierra. I decided to upgrade to Catalina (not sure why at this point). I did an upgrade, not a clean install.
Everything seemed to work fine for 2 to 3 weeks, and then I started having issues with Firefox. It would simply hang, force quit would close it, but I would have to restart to even try to use it again.
Then I noticed things like emptying the trash would require a relaunch of finder to complete the process.
I had installed two programs just before all this happened, but removing them did not solve the issue. The programs were both recommended by several websites: itsyCal and Carbiner Elements. The first adds a pop-up calendar to the menu bar and the second allowed me to change the behaviour of the Home and End keys.
I tried to repair the OS using Command-R, but the issues would re-appear after a few hours of use.
Yesterday, I tried a reinstall of the OS. It seemed to work. Then, today, I clicked by user name, then Login Window, as I was leaving the computer for a while - and I had Firefox and a couple of other apps open. When I returned, Firefox seemed to hang, I clicked on links they did not work, I clicked on tabs, they did not change. I Quit Firefox, opened it up again and it seems fine.
A few hours later I downloaded a couple of zip files from a legit site...I double-click on the zip file to extract the PDFs and I get a message that says: "Stuffit Expander.app will damage your computer. You should move it to trash."
The dialogue box includes a checkbox: "Report malware to Apple to protect other users."
The two buttons available are "Move to Trash" or "Cancel". I have only cancelled for now.
I searched the message on Google and got 0 results! Obviously it is a new thing.
So, it this Catalina deciding that and old stand-by app is bad; or is Stuffit actually bad; or what?