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Q: mac keeper?

Hi have a 2010 mac mini 320gb and as i was surfing the web a website called mac keeper said my mac might be at risk. after seeing the website 10 times then i read what they had to say, it said that it would bring a boost to the mac by antivirus and my mac was very slow at that time so i just installed the app. do you think mac keeper is a good app? thanks in advance.

mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Mar 12, 2011 3:07 AM

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  • by mikesoderstrom,

    mikesoderstrom mikesoderstrom Mar 28, 2012 8:09 AM in response to Moms90
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    Mar 28, 2012 8:09 AM in response to Moms90

    Activity Monitor is a Utility found in the Utilities folder in Applications. It lets you see every little thing going on in your Mac. You search for specific items (called 'Filter') in the top right. This is probably the easiest way to find Zeobit processes.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Mar 28, 2012 8:10 AM in response to Moms90
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    Mar 28, 2012 8:10 AM in response to Moms90

    If all you had was a browser popup asking for you to install or download MacKeeper and you cancelled it, then it is not installed. We saw that on one of our Macs (don't remember which web site it was on), but all we did was tell it no. Nothing was downloaded (no files with Zeobit or MacKeeper anywhere on the drive).

  • by Moms90,

    Moms90 Moms90 Mar 28, 2012 8:16 AM in response to redbird123
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    Mar 28, 2012 8:16 AM in response to redbird123

    I did not 'install' anything, I just 'X' out of it.  I did do a search for MacKeeper and found nothing, but did not do a search for Zeobits.  Will try that.

     

    Mildred

  • by Moms90,

    Moms90 Moms90 Mar 28, 2012 3:31 PM in response to mikesoderstrom
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    Mar 28, 2012 3:31 PM in response to mikesoderstrom

    Hi Mike,

     

    Did as you instructed and nothing was found w/either Mackeeper or Zeobit.

     

    I think I dodged a bullet today

     

    Mildred

  • by mikesoderstrom,

    mikesoderstrom mikesoderstrom Mar 28, 2012 4:13 PM in response to Moms90
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    Mar 28, 2012 4:13 PM in response to Moms90

    Great! Yeah, if it was just a pop up then that shouldn't be an issue. If you are using Safari, you can block pop-ups by clicking on the Safari menu at the top and then choosing block pop-ups.

  • by peterlemer,

    peterlemer peterlemer Mar 29, 2012 2:44 AM in response to mikesoderstrom
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    Mar 29, 2012 2:44 AM in response to mikesoderstrom

    This was most probably not a pop-up, but a 'pop-under'. This is a web page that opens automatically when you click another web page. It doesn;t look like a web page - it looks like a pop-up, which is what confuses many.

     

    The important difference is that a pop-up, being a piece of code, can be blocked by your browser's anti-popup software. A popunder cannot. Provided you don't click on this nuisance ( apart from closing the window), nothing bad can happen.

     

    The popunder is launched by the 'parent' webpage because the owner of the parent has been paid a fee.

     

    This kind of marketing is extremely obnoxious, because it pretends to be a sofware alert rather than an advert. The mere fact that so many on this forum, and presumably millions elsewhere, think that this is a popup, shows the extent and effectiveness of this pretense.

     

    pete

  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Mar 29, 2012 6:23 AM in response to peterlemer
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    Mar 29, 2012 6:23 AM in response to peterlemer

    Since I started using GlimmerBlocker, I have not been bothered by popups or popunders.

     

    Now that I have installed ClickTo Flash, the rest of the obnoxious adverts are greatly reduced to the point that it almost pleasent to suft the web again.

     

    Allan

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Mar 29, 2012 6:23 AM in response to peterlemer
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    Mar 29, 2012 6:23 AM in response to peterlemer

    Popups and pop-unders are identical. They're both called in the parent page you're on. The only difference is where they are placed in relation to the main web page. And as far as paying a fee somehow being the difference? Both popups and pop-unders are advertising, so both of them paid a fee to the owner of the web site.

  • by peterlemer,

    peterlemer peterlemer Mar 29, 2012 9:24 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    Mar 29, 2012 9:24 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    Kurt, that sounds like useful info. If they are identical, why doesn't Safari's Pop-up blocker block pop-unders?

    I didn't try to suggest that the fee payable was different for both genres - but thanks for highlighting the similarity.

    As a point of interest, I can add toolber, bookmarks bar etc to a pop-under revealing it as just another web page.

    Can I do the same to pop-ups?

     

    pete

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Mar 29, 2012 11:20 AM in response to peterlemer
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    Mar 29, 2012 11:20 AM in response to peterlemer

    Unfortunately, popups and pop-unders are a constant war. People find and provide tools to block them, and the people who want you to see them find new ways around the blocks.

     

    I've been having great results with the free AdBlock. Haven't see one since.

  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Mar 29, 2012 12:09 PM in response to Kurt Lang
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    Mar 29, 2012 12:09 PM in response to Kurt Lang

    I used AdBlock but was still getting the ads. So I switched over to GlimmerBlocker. Now I don't get them.

     

    Allan

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Mar 29, 2012 12:46 PM in response to Allan Eckert
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    Mar 29, 2012 12:46 PM in response to Allan Eckert

    I used GlimmerBlocker for a long time, but had to switch to something else when it would completely prevent certain legitimate web sites I visit from loading. Photoshop User Group's site for one. I couldn't see a way in GlimmerBlocker's prefs to enter a list of preferred sites so it would ignore it.

  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Mar 29, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Kurt Lang
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    Mar 29, 2012 12:49 PM in response to Kurt Lang

    So far I have not had that problem with it.

     

    I don't visit the PhotoShop Users Group so I am not able to comment on that one.

     

    Allan

  • by peterlemer,

    peterlemer peterlemer Apr 1, 2012 5:30 AM in response to Kurt Lang
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    Apr 1, 2012 5:30 AM in response to Kurt Lang

    kurt, I've just installed adblock to reduce ads on FB and checking snopes.com, I see no popunders for the first time :-)

     

    cool! thanks

     

    pete

  • by GuinCI,

    GuinCI GuinCI Apr 11, 2012 5:28 AM in response to corus666
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    Apr 11, 2012 5:28 AM in response to corus666
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