[steve666]

Every morning when I turn on my ibook I get the spinning ball and the top icons sort of appear but the screen is an odd color then it just hangs. I restart it and it starts but has trouble opening safari and wont connect to the internet. I discovered that when I change location from automatic to LAN it can then connect.
I ran fsck and it said harddrive fine. I ran YASU and repaired permissions, etc but during prebinding I got an error message and when I checked the log it mentioned something about quicktime.
I ran the quicktime update and ran YASU after and the prebinding seemed to work.
However, the computer still acted up the next morning.
I snooped around the hard drive and found something that sounded strange but maybe normal? In start-up there was something caalled microsoft AU Daemon. In activity monitor it mentioned pipe daemon. Are these normal?
I'm at a loss as to whats the problem-any ideas?
Also, how can I stop ical from starting up when I turn on my ibook-I never use it.
Thanks for any info!

[f1000]

Sounds like your iBook needs an exorcism.

[steve666]

Sounds like it to me. What the heck are those daemon things?

[f1000]

Try running Hardware Test off of your Install DVD to see if you're having hardware issues.

[steve666]

Originally Posted by f1000 

Try running Hardware Test off of your Install DVD to see if you're having hardware issues.

I dont have the DVD, this is a hand me down from my niece and she lost the discs. However, I ran fsck and my hard drive came up clean so I think maybe its a virus/worm?
Do you know of any freeware/shareware program that kills worms and viruses? Virus Barrier needs 10.4 to run and I have 10.3.9.