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By lancelarson » Posted on July 8, 2007 - 6:41pm

I’m on a PowerMac G5 tower (2.0 Ghz) running 10.4.10. Last night all characters on the desktop and in the Finder turned into the letter “A” with a square around it. Additionally, many programs are acting strangely. Safari crashes about every minute and even when I select “About this Mac” I am taken back to the login screen. I ran Clam Xav and found one questionable file, but upon restart the problems are still the same. Any suggestions?! Thank you in advance.

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