Virus on Mac - Slow? (screenshots)

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Hoping someone can identify why my Mac is running so slowly and getting hot.

Attached are 2 screenshots
  1. iStat overview of what's happening
  2. a pop-up window I routinely get when plugging in external hardrives and doing other stuff. I think it might be from a virus.

OSX 10.9.5
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
16gb 1600 MHz DDR3

275.45 GB Free (about 1/4 of hardrive)

Thanks!

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Launch Activity Monitor and look at which process is burning your CPU cycles.
( Make sure that , in activity Monitor, " All Processes " is selected.
Sort by CPU usage and post that as a screenshot :)

Cheers ... McBie
 
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Launch Activity Monitor and look at which process is burning your CPU cycles.
( Make sure that , in activity Monitor, " All Processes " is selected.
Sort by CPU usage and post that as a screenshot :)

Cheers ... McBie

Thank you McBie!

Wasn't sure how to sort by CPU usage ("%CPU" or "CPU Time"?) so I'm posting 2 screenshots.

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Unless your machine has relaxed, there is a huge disjoint there between what iStat and AM are saying is going on here. iStat, for example, seems to think your kernel process is sucking back CPU cycles whereas AM seems to think everything is okay. I'm more inclined to trust AM and given that, nothing looks out of the ordinary. Is there still this disjoint between what each of them is reporting?
 
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Great stuff.
Was your Mac running slow when you took those sceenshots ?
I can not see any process that is using excessive CPU.
Can you simulate the situation and then take the screenshots of Activity Monitor ?

Do you have a virus scanner active that is scanning files " On Access " ?

Cheers ... McBie
 
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