Q: is it safe to download the mackeeper?

Softwater (Phil?): Both links are working for me.

Good to here, eww, thx.

When you click the applehelpwriter.com link, is the loaded address on success in the address bar still 'applehelpwriter.com' or 'applehelpwriter.wordpress.com'?

Ah...No, it's redirecting to the Wordpress URL — presumably as you intended.

Yep, that's right. I can't get any joy out of the 'applehelpwriter.com' domain, nor out of wordpress support - despite repeated requests - to find out why the domain name I paid for is suddenly unavailable.

Out of interest, the graph below (inside the red circle) which displays hits/hour shows that the site was down until I changed the nameserver (that gap represents about 12 hours of time).

My blog only ever generates a modest but steady amount of hits of around 1,000 a day. Since September, when the Mackeeper post went up, about 40% of that daily traffic has been generated by the Mackeeper uninstall post.

Now who, or what, could be cause of the applehelpwiter.com domain returning "the connection was unexpectedly dropped because the server may be busy" (as the error mesage goes, or something like that) is an utter mystery.

Incidentally, if the applehelpwriter page should become unavailable for any reason... there are several other places you can find the Mackeepr Uninstall guide:

http://cl.ly/1R2r191D0W2G2s3U1O02

http://applehelpwriter.phpbb3now.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6

http://www.facebook.com/applehelpwriter

Hopefully, by distributing this info widely enough, we can keep it still available to those that need it.

Hi Softwater, thanks.

Lex

...you can easily remove MacKeeper as it has its own uninstaller

As I understand it, to get the uninstaller, you need to have the paid for version.  ie. it is "ransomware". If this is the case, your attempts to entice people to try McKeeper are disingenuous, to say the least.

The MacKeeper uninstall does not uninstal, just leaves everything malware on your computer but so that you do not notice.

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Don't try this at home kids, MacKeeper is a very bad thing

Rightly or wrongly I have downloaded and paid for Mackeeper, I am a bit underwhelmed so far, but have no noticeable issues but am monitoring it. Will give it a little longer but I do not think its a product I would recomend in future. Certainly difficult to justify the cost.

Amen to the difficulty of justifying the cost. Seeing as how you can do everything for free and much more safely.

Allan

In fairness Zeobit have agreed to refund my money.  I did not need the software of course.  I will let y'all know if there is any trouble.  I

You are not the first to be promised a refund. Most of the people I hear about never actually get refunded.

I was wondering, if I don't get the refund I will post it here for sure. 

They have given me the refund they promised and within the time scale they said it would take.  So to be fair I have no complaint on them on that score.  I didn't need the software though and indeed, I should take some personal responsibility and should have known I didn't need it too!!