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We don't have anything that scans 10.6.8. I don't know of anything that is both free and that will do a remotely decent job of scanning 10.6.8, unfortunately. I believe that ClamXav will scan 10.6.8 fairly well, but it is no longer free. I notice that the screenshot you've provided indicates that the machine is suffering from kernel panics. These are generally caused by one of three things: bad third-party software (specifically, software that installs a kernel extension), a badly-corrupt system or bad hardware. None of these are likely to be caused by any kind of Mac threat. Very few Mac threats involve kernel extensions.
On a system old enough to be capable of running 10.6.8, this very well could be a hardware failure. This is one major hazard of remaining reliant on such an old system: sooner or later, you're going to have to replace your hardware, and there's a dwindling supply of used hardware found in places like eBay that is capable of running 10.6.8. Sooner or later, you're going to have to find a way to upgrade to more recent hardware and a more recent system. It would be better to do that on your terms than being forced to by a hardware failure coupled with inability to quickly locate replacement hardware. Thanks treed, I'm really grateful for your reply.
OK, I'll see about ClamXav. Regarding kernel panics - I never had such things happening before. I work on Macs since 1992.
The hardware should not be so old - my Air is late 2010 and iMac mid 2011. Both are declared Apple suppoted models. I run 10.6.8 because I still use FreeHand and still annoyed with Illustrator. Yap, you are right, guess I'll have to upgrade the system sometime soon and I admit I'm trying to delay it as much as possible.
In the meantime - is there any way to address this kernel panic attacks? Wishing you all the best in 2017. If you're having kernel panics on both of those machines that started around the same time, that's almost certainly going to be due to some software you installed on both. It's very unlikely for both to have simultaneously had hardware failures or had their systems corrupted in just the right way to cause kernel panics.
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However, that software is unlikely to be malware. Open the Terminal app - found in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder - and paste the following command in: kextstat grep -v com.apple Then press return. What is the output that produces? Never knew about it.
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