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My MacBook Pro is early 2006 which means the OS is permanently stuck with OS X version 10.6.8. Only Macs made in mid to late 2006 and later can be upgraded to newer versions of OS X. Since I have malware of some kind that was installed during a Minecraft installation by my son my Mac barely functions without freezing and has to be shut down and restarted very frequently and is extremely slow when it does simple tasks like opening and closing folders. How do I find the issue and remove the malware