finder restarting on its own

[mowgli]

Since yesterday I've been getting some strange behaviours while using the finder on my Mac. Basically while browsing through clips with the preview enabled it often randomly closes all open windows and restarts itself.

Any clues?

[deepvisual]

haunted?

[vjpixylight]

Virus??????

[Scratchpole]

I had that happen to me before no idea why but it didn't last long.

[vanakaru]

Try this forum.
http://forums.macosxhints.com/search...archid=1644444
Describe your anomaly as detailed you can (provide the make of your mac and OS X v. and so on) and you get help most likely. There are guys who know almost everything about macs and spend a lot of time sharing their wisdom.

Actually I remember some weird behavior before the nVidia video chip died on my MBP v.3.1.

[subpixel]

Macs don't have these sorts of problems. I suggest you have a lay down and come back to it refreshed and clear-headed.

[mowgli]

thanks for the answers, it all seems to be ok again suddenly, ah,the beauty of computers!

[sleepytom]

do the usual house keeping.
disk util > repair permissions
do a defrag with idefrag or techtool
do software update.