Boxes appear on the screen of Mac mini 10.9.4 making it freeze

My screen fills up with rows & columns of boxes freezing the computer.

Boot to recovery and repair the startup disk via disk utility
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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 665204 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          8
Anonymous UUID: D6DCC90D-A5CA-4BBE-A435-3E64A512A51B
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0xffffff8160313b00 : 0xffffff8000220792
0xffffff8160313b80 : 0xffffff80002b4f36
0xffffff8160313b90 : 0xffffff8000227e68
0xffffff8160313bd0 : 0xffffff7f80d14250
0xffffff8160313c20 : 0xffffff7f80d14f73
0xffffff8160313cc0 : 0xffffff800059a237
0xffffff8160313d00 : 0xffffff8000586cbf
0xffffff8160313d20 : 0xffffff800057e6e3
0xffffff8160313df0 : 0xffffff800057ed06
0xffffff8160313e20 : 0xffffff8000583c52
0xffffff8160313e70 : 0xffffff8000583d05
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0xffffff8160313ef0 : 0xffffff80005367c3
0xffffff8160313f30 : 0xffffff8000536897
0xffffff8160313f60 : 0xffffff80005ccfe8
0xffffff8160313fb0 : 0xffffff80002da5e9
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com.intego.iokit.VBX6NKE(1.0)[211D5E46-3E43-C5DC-9C6A-8C3FFF0F4493]@0xffffff7f8 0d11000->0xffffff7f80d1bfff
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11E53
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Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.0: Mon Apr 9 19:32:15 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.26.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: A8ED611D-FB0F-3729-8392-E7A32C5E7D74
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last loaded kext at 58265763561: com.intego.iokit.VBX6NKE            1 (addr 0xffffff7f80d11000, size 45056)
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com.intego.iokit.VBX6NKE            1
com.intego.iokit.BehavioralKext            1
com.intego.kext.VirusBarrier.AppBarrierKPI            10.6.8
com.intego.kext.VirusBarrierKPI            10.6.8
com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice            1.1
com.huawei.driver.HuaweiDataCardACMData            4.2
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Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A53463531323634485A2D3147344431
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USB Device: USB2.0 Hub, 0x05e3 (Genesys Logic, Inc.), 0x0606, 0xfa140000 / 5
USB Device: USB2.0 Hub, 0x05e3 (Genesys Logic, Inc.), 0x0606, 0xfa141000 / 9
USB Device: Apple Optical USB Mouse, apple_vendor_id, 0x0304, 0xfa141100 / 8
USB Device: CanoScan, 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.), 0x1904, 0xfa141200 / 6
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 4
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x8215, 0xfa111000 / 7
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USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: HUAWEI Mobile, 0x12d1 (Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.), 0x1001, 0xfd130000 / 5
USB Device: My Passport 070A, 0x1058 (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.), 0x070a, 0xfd140000 / 6
USB Device: Built-in iSight, apple_vendor_id, 0x8502, 0xfd110000 / 4
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd120000 / 3

Immediate suspects are the additions you added to you rsystem that installed kexts (drivers). From above,
com.intego.iokit.VBX6NKE            1
com.intego.iokit.BehavioralKext            1
com.intego.kext.VirusBarrier.AppBarrierKPI            10.6.8
com.intego.kext.VirusBarrierKPI            10.6.8
com.globaldelight.driver.BoomDevice            1.1
com.huawei.driver.HuaweiDataCardACMData            4.2
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2. Uninstall all the intego VirusBarrier stuff. That's my first guess and the troublemaker.

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