My computer keeps starting up by itself - Help

Just wanted to know if anyone can tell me what's wrong. My blue & White G3 keeps restarting when it is shut down. Is there something I need to check or uncheck. I am running 10.4 right now and it was just installed about a week ago. This computer has been running tiger since it came out, I just recently wiped the OS hard drive partitioned,initialized and reinstalled everything (for maintenance) - it has never done this before.
Thanks

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My computer keeps stopping and restarting itself randomly while I'm working.

This is the message I got this time
Anonymous UUID:
1A6C03A4-83F8-D71F-2C8D-1BBDEFA77554
Tue Apr 1 05:50:55 2014
panic(cpu 5 caller 0xffffff8029edbe2e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8029ed3db0, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0xffffff803b143000, CR3: 0x000000014813504f, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0xffffff803b142fff, RBX: 0xffffff803632d000, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0xffffff8038eb2c68
RSP: 0xffffff80aa58baf0, RBP: 0xffffff80aa58baf0, RSI: 0x000000000000002e, RDI: 0xffffff803b142c00
R8: 0x0000000000000002, R9: 0xffffff8037d276d8, R10: 0x00000000000fc080, R11: 0x0000000000000202
R12: 0x0000000000000002, R13: 0x0000000000000002, R14: 0x0000000000000020, R15: 0xffffff803609a008
RFL: 0x0000000000010286, RIP: 0xffffff8029ed3db0, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0xffffff803b143000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x5
Backtrace (CPU 5), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80aa58b780 : 0xffffff8029e22fa9
0xffffff80aa58b800 : 0xffffff8029edbe2e
0xffffff80aa58b9d0 : 0xffffff8029ef3326
0xffffff80aa58b9f0 : 0xffffff8029ed3db0
0xffffff80aa58baf0 : 0xffffff7fac5a7047
0xffffff80aa58bb30 : 0xffffff7fac5a9467
0xffffff80aa58bb90 : 0xffffff7fac5a9bdf
0xffffff80aa58bbe0 : 0xffffff7fac5a5268
0xffffff80aa58bde0 : 0xffffff7fac5b44c1
0xffffff80aa58be60 : 0xffffff802a1b3cc4
0xffffff80aa58bec0 : 0xffffff802a1bcae4
0xffffff80aa58bf10 : 0xffffff802a1c2447
0xffffff80aa58bf50 : 0xffffff802a23e363
0xffffff80aa58bfb0 : 0xffffff8029ef3b26
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.trendmicro.kext.filehook(1.5)[85602024-9C3A-50DF-555F-9BA1FC0ECC5E]@0xffffff 7fac5a3000->0xffffff7fac5b9fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: ocspd
Mac OS version:
13C64
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 9FEA8EDC-B629-3ED2-A1A3-6521A1885953
Kernel slide:
0x0000000029c00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8029e00000
System model name: MacBookPro8,2 (Mac-94245A3940C91C80)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 1846855610508
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104 (addr 0xffffff7fac5be000, size 32768)
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Model: MacBookPro8,2, BootROM MBP81.0047.B27, 4 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.2 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.69f3
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AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xD6), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.22)
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USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Hub
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USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub
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USB Device: IR Receiver
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There are many other people with the same problem, you are not alone. You should visit the Genius bar.
Check out this, it might help: https://discussions.apple.com/message/22579605#22579605

In system preferences my search engine and homepage are set for google but my computer keeps using BING, please help!

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You installed the "Genieo/InstallMac" rootkit. The product is a fraud, and the developer knowingly distributes an uninstaller that doesn't work. I suggest the tedious procedure below to disable Genieo. This procedure may leave a few small files behind, but it will permanently deactivate the rootkit (as long as you never reinstall it.)
Malware is constantly changing to get around the defenses against it. The instructions in this comment are valid as of now, as far as I know. They won't necessarily be valid in the future. Anyone finding this comment a few days or more after it was posted should look for more recent discussions or start a new one.
Back up all data. You must know how to restore from a backup even if the system becomes unbootable. If you don't know how to do that, or if you don't have any backups, stop here and ask for guidance.
Step 1
In the Applications folder, there should be an item named "Genieo". Select it and open the Finder Info window. If it shows that the Version is less than 2.0, download and install the current version from the genieo.com website. This may seem paradoxical, since the goal is to remove it, but you'll be saving yourself some trouble as well as the risk of putting the system in an unusable state.
There should be another application in the same folder named "Uninstall Genieo". After updating Genieo, if necessary, launch "Uninstall Genieo" and follow the prompts to remove the "newspaper-style home page." Restart the computer.
This step does not completely inactivate Genieo.
Step 2
Don't take this step unless you completed Step 1, including the restart, without any error messages. If you couldn't complete Step 1, stop here and ask for instructions.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/Library/Frameworks/GenieoExtra.framework
Right-click or control-click the line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.
If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
A folder should open with an item named "GenieoExtra.framework" selected. Move that item to the Trash. You'll be prompted for your administrator password.
Move each of these items to the Trash in the same way:
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieo.completer.update.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieo.engine.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.client.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.client
/usr/lib/libgenkit.dylib/usr/lib/libgenkitsa.dylib
/usr/lib/libimckit.dylib
/usr/lib/libimckitsa.dylib~/Library/Application Support/com.genieoinnovation.Installer~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieo.completer.download.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieo.completer.update.plist
If there are other items with a name that includes "Genieo" or "genieo" alongside any of those listed above, move them as well. There's no need to restart after each one. Some of these items will be absent, in which case you'll get a message that the file can't be found. Skip that item and go on to the next one.
Restart and empty the Trash. Don't try to empty the Trash until you have restarted.
Step 3
From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Extensions
Uninstall any extensions you don't know you need, including ones called "Genieo" or "Omnibar," and any that have the word "Spigot" or "InstallMac" in the description. If in doubt, uninstall all extensions. Do the equivalent for the Firefox and Chrome browsers, if you use either of those.
Your web browser(s) should now be working, and you should be able to reset the home page and search engine. If not, stop here and post your results.
Make sure you don't repeat the mistake that led you to install this software. Chances are you got it from an Internet cesspit such as "Softonic" or "CNET Download." Never visit either of those sites again. You might also have downloaded it from an ad in a page on some other site. The ad has a large green button labeled "Download" or "Download Now" in white letters. The button is designed to confuse people who intend to download something else on the same page. If youever download a file that isn't obviously what you expected, delete it immediately.
You may be wondering why you didn't get a warning from Gatekeeper about installing software from an unknown developer, as you should have. The reason is that the Genieo developer has a codesigning certificate issued by Apple, which causes Gatekeeper to give the installer a pass. Apple could revoke the certificate, but as of this writing, has not done so, even though it's aware of the problem. It must be said that this failure of oversight is inexcusable and has seriously compromised the value of Gatekeeper and the Developer ID program. You cannot rely on Gatekeeper alone to protect you from harmful software.
Finally, be forewarned that when Genieo is mentioned on this site, the developer sometimes shows up under the name "Genieo support." If that happens, don't believe anything he says, but feel free to tell him what you think of his scam.

The Adobe Flash Player Version 13.0.0.214 on my computer keeps crashing when I opened a learning program. Can anyone help?

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HT204406 my itunes match keeps starting by itself.. gets to the third and final step (artwork) then starts all over again. it does this all by itself. itunes even opens by itself to do this. help!

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i'm using IE 8 and, as stated, (trying to use) adobe flash player 10. i also have netflix that i use quite often. actually i think that's what started this mess to begin with?
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ANYONE...PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
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sorry all...don't mean to keep posting, but i'm guessing that the more info i give
all of you, the better the help maybe.
this entire mess (everything i've now listed) really started with the IE 9 Beta, which is what made un-install it after about a week (i think), and then install IE 8. i had never used IE 8 though. i went from IE 7, to IE 9 Beta, to IE 8, which is what i have now. i did all the un-installing and re-installing of the different versions correctly. i've checked all of that, but is there a chance that the 9 Beta just "glitched out" my laptop and it isn't going to get fixed until they have the usable IE 9?? the IE 9 Beta REALLY messed with my mail page the most. i attempted to contact yahoo about a fix, to no avail! LOL (we all know this!)
also...why am i NOT the only one that the freezing happens to? there are others on this forum that have that problem. i don't know if they're having the other problems that i am, but as far as my laptop freezing up on me... i know i'm not alone? with xmas coming up so soon, i haven't watched anything on netflix in a couple of weeks. my news videos seem to play correctly; and now youtube works. i just have no idea what's going on that is causing this to freeze up at other times, or the other, smaller glitches?
there's not a doubt in my mind that this has something to do with the current version of adobe, and IE 8...i just don't know what it is...and my frustation level is at about 19!! LOL there are days that i just shut the whole thing down/off 'cause i'm just tired of dealing with it!! that has made it terribly hard to get my xmas chopping done. i do it all on-line. between my problems and problems with vendors sites, my bank a/c has (3 times!) gotten charged multiple times for a single order. then "we" start calling people! the bank, the vendors, the bank again......
see what i'm up against here!!!!!! i'm cracking me up this a.m. macy's placed 9 orders and charged my a/c 9 times, the other day! needless to say, i ran in the red for 2 days while they figured it all out. in doing all that, i couldn't even get an order # outta them, so i told them to just cancel EVERYTHING!! good thing i have a great rep at my bank, huh??!! 'course they're also messed up...at the beginning of dec. i (somehow?) transfered the same amount to my chkg. a/c, 4 times??!! yep...the bank's gotten yelled at, too, during this season of such wonderful happines!! BAH-HUMBUG!!

HELP! I just downloaded pics from my Canon 7D to i photo. I was near the end of editing and the computer froze (started spinning). I forced a restart and went I got back to iPhoto all my work was gone. Any suggestions?

HELP! I just downloaded pics from my Canon 7D to i photo. I was near the end of editing and the computer froze (started spinning). I forced a restart and went I got back to iPhoto all my work was gone. Any suggestions?

a best practice to is to never have any computer program (including iPhoto) delete the photos from the card but to import the photos and keep them and then after at least one successful backup cycle has completed and then reformat the card -- I use three very large (32 GB) cards in rotation so I do not reformat for typically a year or more giving me one more long term backup of my photos
Try Back up your iPhoto library, Depress and hold the option (alt) and command keys and launch iPhoto - rebuild your iPhoto library database
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HELP PLEASE! I am working with GH4 4k footage in adobe preimere and the computer keeps freezing... any ideas?

HELP PLEASE! I am working with GH4 4k footage in adobe preimere and the computer keeps freezing... any ideas?

Thanks for your response. I'm sorry for the lack of details, but posting a question on this forum is completly new to me, so I guess I am learning how it works.
I have to be honest, I am a novice to video editing, but I am here to learn so I will provide all the info I know and please let me know if it is enough...
I filmed my first feature film on a Panasonic GH4. We filmed in 4k (compressed files). I am about 900 GB of total files for all the footage. I am currently editing on a 17' Toshiba Satellite i7 with 750 GB of space and I believe 8 gb of ram. All of the footage for the film is not on the computer, but stored on a 1 TB external hardrive (Rugged Lacie is the name of the hard drive). I am using a usb 3.0 from the hard drive to the computer.
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I am requesting advice on how to continue editing the film without the computer crashing if that is even possible with using the same computer. If not what would be my options?
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My Mac Pro starts up when I turn on the power supply (when I plug it to the outlet), BEFORE I switch on the button on the computer, why is this happening? Plus, my computer keeps freezing and blacking out and I'm forced to restart it, that's when the compter starts on its own when I turn on the power.

Hello Engender,
I should have followed up with a progress report because I eventually eliminated all the problems I was having with my Mac Pro, now it's behaving like a new computer… beautifully. I did originally take Grant's advice above, changing the setting that I had in the System Preferences > Energy Saver but that only stopped from rebooting on its own when I shut down my Mac properly. Otherwise it continued to restart on its own after freezing or crushing when I switched on the power. I took my machine to the Apple Store and after many tests they couldn't find anything wrong with it. I was very depressed about the whole business.
It was after going onto many of the other Apple related websites that I discovered that it wasn't a faulty power switch or fan, as as I originally thought, but found out that my problem was related to the Graphic Card and possibly I did not have enough ram (I had the original amount of 2 GB). The original card that came with the computer: 512 MB ATI Radeon X1900 XT was over heating and forcing my machine to shut down, I think it was because I had upgraded to OSX Lion which on its own requires at least 2 GB of ram to operate well. I added 4 GB of Ram to the 2GB I had (4GB kit (2GBx2), Apple 240-pin FBDIMM, DDR2 PC2-5300 upgrades for Apple Mac Pro (4-core) 1st Gen. - 2006-2007 Desktop/PC, CT579443 from Crucial.com about $160 for the set) and replaced the Graphic Card with ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB from Apple (around $260), (ATI Radeon HD 5770 Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro (Mid 2010) - Apple Store (U.S.)) This card works very well with my original Mac Pro 2008. I installed it about two weeks ago and no problem with it starting on its own, over heating or freezing. OSX Lion works well and I'm thinking of upgrading to Mountain Lion once I learn that my Mac Pro 1.1 will work with the new hardware I installed.
Your problem could just be the power cord but I agree with you that doesn't sound right, when I mentioned faulty switch I meant the part where the power cord meets the power button, the unit which houses the power distribution, I thought at first that it could be faulty but changed my mind because of the computer overheating.
I don't know if this is of any help to you but I hope your trouble will be solved with the new cord.

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