In less than 2 weeks, I had a panic attack on my Macbook 10.6.8. What does this mean?
In less than 2 weeks, my macbook 10.6.8 had a panic attack. Shortly before it happened 2 weeks ago, I got this call from someone saying he was from Apple and he got a report that something was wrong with my computer. Since I hadn't called any one I thought it was a prank call and I hung up. Shortly after that I received the message to power down my computer. Do people from Apple make calls like this? I tried to find the number but I think it one of those caller unavailable, that's why I hung up. What could be causing this panic attack? Since 2007, it's happened before but few and far between. I did add new memory about a month ago but other than that, I've added nothing. I hope you can help me because I am on very limited budget and can't buy a new one. Thanks for your help.
The call as well as any similar email messages claiming to be from Apple are all phishing scams. We can't help you until you post a kernel panic log: Mac OS X- How to log a kernel panic. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on diagnosing kernel panics.
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