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<blockquote data-quote="jess.kennedy21" data-source="post: 1707807" data-attributes="member: 372952"><p>Hi, well I formatted the volumes with Disk Utility on the old macbook 2009. I formatted the 2TB in 2 partitions, one small 250GB (MS-DOS FAT) as I had to transfer from an old windows system some photos, and a 1.75TB partition just the normal MAC OS Extended (Journaled). </p><p></p><p>Yes, I saw that Spotlight was still running in the activity monitor but I didn't stop it and the hard drive ejected as soon as the threats had been removed by the antivirus. I am also extremely curious as to whether the threats had to do with it. I did do a virus scan on the hard drive afterwards and it came back with 0 threats, thankfully. There was one more thing which I did not mention - I had also used 2x usb sticks that I had regularly used with my old computer (which never had a virus on it). I used them both to transfer small folders to the new computer and one of these USB sticks ejected normally; however, the other was the same like the hard drive - it was still 'in use'. I did force eject it anyway, as the data and usb were not so important (unlike the hard drive!)</p><p></p><p>When I look into the history of the antivirus, I can see the beginning of the threats it found - they started off as "applications.spigot.browExt" found in Library/Application Support. </p><p></p><p>I am just happy it works now and on the positive side my Mac will be nice and safe now. But if you or anyone could confirm whether this was actually because of the viruses or not, it would be interesting to know!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jess.kennedy21, post: 1707807, member: 372952"] Hi, well I formatted the volumes with Disk Utility on the old macbook 2009. I formatted the 2TB in 2 partitions, one small 250GB (MS-DOS FAT) as I had to transfer from an old windows system some photos, and a 1.75TB partition just the normal MAC OS Extended (Journaled). Yes, I saw that Spotlight was still running in the activity monitor but I didn't stop it and the hard drive ejected as soon as the threats had been removed by the antivirus. I am also extremely curious as to whether the threats had to do with it. I did do a virus scan on the hard drive afterwards and it came back with 0 threats, thankfully. There was one more thing which I did not mention - I had also used 2x usb sticks that I had regularly used with my old computer (which never had a virus on it). I used them both to transfer small folders to the new computer and one of these USB sticks ejected normally; however, the other was the same like the hard drive - it was still 'in use'. I did force eject it anyway, as the data and usb were not so important (unlike the hard drive!) When I look into the history of the antivirus, I can see the beginning of the threats it found - they started off as "applications.spigot.browExt" found in Library/Application Support. I am just happy it works now and on the positive side my Mac will be nice and safe now. But if you or anyone could confirm whether this was actually because of the viruses or not, it would be interesting to know! [/QUOTE]
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