Lots of HD activity when Safari is open
Anybody know why there's lots of hard drive activity when Safari is open?? I've gone to using Firefox almost exclusively because I'm worried something bad is happening. I know it's Safari because when I quit Safari, the disk activity stops. Also, is happens on all three of the Macs I use, a laptop, my iMac, and a Mac mini at work.
I'm using 10.5.8 and Safari 4.0.4.
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Identifier: com.apple.iTunes
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7/01/14 4:01:54 AM com.apple.SecurityServer[24] Session 0x5fbff962 created
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7/01/14 4:02:02 AM kernel en1: 802.11d country code set to 'DE'.
7/01/14 4:02:02 AM kernel en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140
7/01/14 4:02:02 AM bootlog[53] BOOT_TIME: 1389029506 0
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7/01/14 4:02:07 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.SystemStarter) Failed to count the number of files in "/System/Library/StartupItems": No such file or directory
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7/01/14 4:02:07 AM kernel AirPort: Link Up on en1
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Whenever you remove system modifications, they must be removed completely, and the only way to do that is to use the uninstallation tool, if any, provided by the developers, or to follow their instructions. If the software has been incompletely removed, you may have to re-download or even reinstall it in order to finish the job.
I never install system modifications myself, and I don't know how to uninstall them. You'll have to do your own research to find that information.
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Back up all data before making any changes.
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