What the heck happened to my MacBook Pro? Virus?

Before I explain, My Macbook Pro has go a lot more slower & experienced more freezing. Basically what happened was I was normally surfing the web & I was opening up an app. Then all of a sudden everything disappears. My dock, the toolbar, webpage. Then I end up at my desktop. Everything on my desktop is gone to. I thought it was going to shut off but it didn't. The only thing that was showing up was my desktop picture. The screen didnt turn black or anything. My cursor was moving though. Can anyone tell me what happened? I downloaded Sophos Free Anti for Mac just in case. If anyone has a better anitivirus software, please tell me. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.8

Highly doubt it was a virus.
But for peace of mind, use ClamX AV to scan.
Could be a corrupted hard drive.
Do a PRAM/SMC reset.
Verify your drive and verify your drive's permissions.
Repair your permissions if necessary.
Also check what loading on login items when you first power up your MB.

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