yanique

Q: is it safe to download the mackeeper?

i think my mac book pro has a bug, and i had a popup called mackeeper that says it can clean up my mac, is it safe to download the mac keeper?

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Posted on May 14, 2011 1:45 PM

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  • by softwater,

    softwater softwater Jun 1, 2012 8:25 AM in response to Stephen Siegel
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    Jun 1, 2012 8:25 AM in response to Stephen Siegel

    Spotlight's probably in a wobble. A few things you could do:

     

    1. Tell Spotlight to start again. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app) and copy/paste this command:

     

    sudo mdutil -E /

    Press 'return'. You'll be asked for your password, which will not echo when you type it, so type carefully.

     

    Give Spotlight a few minutes then check on its progress, does it look like it's going to complete in a reasonable amount of time? If the problem persists

     

    2. Restart your Mac in Safe mode and log in to your account.

    This'll take a while. When it's finished, immediately restart and log in normally and check on Spotlight again.

  • by Stephen Siegel,

    Stephen Siegel Stephen Siegel Jun 1, 2012 1:08 PM in response to softwater
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    Jun 1, 2012 1:08 PM in response to softwater

    Thanks for your thoughts.

     

    I performed the procedures you described. After the first procedure Spotlight estimated it would take 20 minutes to complete indexing of the my Mac Pro's two internal HDs (one a 600 GB VelociRaptor, the other the stadard issue WD 640 GB that came with the computer). After a while it modified its estimate to four hours. I then performed the second step you suggested. Now Spotlight estimates that it will take three days to finish indexing the drives. I think I was better off with step 1 alone and may repeat it. Also there is one other odd thing, apparently unrelated. When starting from the VelociRaptor the MacPro no longer makes the familiar boing sound - - except when one uses the 640 GB OEM drive as a startup drive and then designates the VRaptor as the startup drive and restarts. Other than this recent problem with Spotlight - - which as I said began immediately after the incident with MacKeeper - - the MacPro has been performing without any anomalies. (I'm running OS 10.7.4 but the lack of boing started earlier while I was running OS 10.6.8.)

  • by tecapp101,

    tecapp101 tecapp101 Aug 22, 2012 8:16 AM in response to yanique
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    Aug 22, 2012 8:16 AM in response to yanique
  • by Gary Tate,

    Gary Tate Gary Tate Aug 22, 2012 8:44 AM in response to Sana_Paul
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    Aug 22, 2012 8:44 AM in response to Sana_Paul

    I have never had a need for this type program and ive been a mac user since 1984. I have found that third party software such as Norton which i tried is more trouble than its worth.

     

    Also remeber every time Apple updates their OS you will have to update this.

  • by 1230macman,

    1230macman 1230macman Oct 21, 2012 4:08 PM in response to yanique
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    Oct 21, 2012 4:08 PM in response to yanique

    no i did it and it costs so much money and the free trial stinks

     

     

    i am so at it

  • by potential investor,

    potential investor potential investor Nov 28, 2012 9:31 AM in response to yanique
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    Nov 28, 2012 9:31 AM in response to yanique

    IF YOU SEE ADS THAT POP UP WHILE BROWSING NEVER ACCEPT THEM WITHOUT FIRST SEARCHING THE REVIEWS EXTENSIVELY IN GOOGLE OR BING OR WHATEVER>>

    ALSO IF YOU ARE USING A MAC YOU SHOULD NEVER NEED ANY VIRUS SOFTWARE AS APPLE ALREADY HAS THIS COVERED AND INCLUDES THEM IN YOUR SOFTWARE UPDATES AT NO COST TO YOU!!!

    TO EVERY UNFORTUNATE SOUL WHO DOWNLOADED MACKEEPER I AM SORRY FOR YOUR MISFOURTUNE BUT YOU SHOULD LEARN FROM THAT MISTAKE AND NEVER EVER DOWNLOAD ANYTHING FROM THE INTERNET WITHOUT FIRST RESEARCHING EVERY DETAIL, REVIEW ETC FIRST!

     

    also never go to any website link with a link address that starts with anything you do not reckognize

    for example above     ''tecapp101  posted a link,, that is a bad link do not go there!!''

    i know this without clicking on it by reading the link address  

         key words which were obvious to me were    "DOWNLOAD" and "MACKEEPER"

    also the username is suspisious..

     

    BE SMART PEOPLE, NEVER DOWNLOAD ANYTHING FROM THE INTERNET WITHOUT FIRST DOING YOUR HOMEWORK!

    AND NEVER DOWNLOAD ANYTHING IN A POP UP!!

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Nov 28, 2012 9:41 AM in response to tecapp101
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    Nov 28, 2012 9:41 AM in response to tecapp101

    tecapp101 wrote:

     

    THIS WILL HELP YOU http://download.cnet.com/MacKeeper/3000-18510_4-75678863.html

    Do Not Install MacKeeper .. Do Not Install MacKeeper .. Do Not Install MacKeeper ..

  • by zenorac,

    zenorac zenorac Nov 28, 2012 9:43 AM in response to potential investor
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    Nov 28, 2012 9:43 AM in response to potential investor

    potential investor (quite the name there) - I am one who can testify.  Testify, brother!   I completely fell for it last year.  I downloaded it, installed it.  it did NOTHING.  My Mac system already was capable of doing what it said it was doing.  I was totally useless and slowed my computer to a crawl.  Luckily, I did some research (NOW I do research) and was able to completely remove it.  Amazingly, my computer actually got faster and I have had not one issue with whatever Mackeeper was supposed to help prevent.  So, yeah, Mackeeper is useless and unnecessary.  It is also the single more persistant, aggrevation, constant pop-ups I have EVER seen. 

     

    One more note, three times now the Mackeeper setup file downloaded to my download folder without my accepting it.  I have no clue how they managed this. Fortunately, I saw it in my downloads screen and deleted them immediately.  They must think I am nuts if they think I am clicking on their installation file just because it downloaded.  How do they get away with this???

     

    My addendum to your post is to not only never download from a popup, but watch your download folder for anything that suddenly appears and DELETE it immediately.  Don't even think about clicking it to find out what it is.  That would be foolhardy at best.

  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Nov 28, 2012 9:48 AM in response to zenorac
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    Nov 28, 2012 9:48 AM in response to zenorac

    What version of OS X are you running?

     

    Allan

  • by thomas_r.,

    thomas_r. thomas_r. Nov 28, 2012 10:17 AM in response to zenorac
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    Nov 28, 2012 10:17 AM in response to zenorac

    One more note, three times now the Mackeeper setup file downloaded to my download folder without my accepting it.  I have no clue how they managed this.

     

    That's not a difficult trick at all. Any JavaScript can initiate a download to your Downloads folder. Of course, legit apps don't cause their installers to be downloaded automatically by their advertisements, but Zeobit has repeatedly shown willingness to stoop to all kinds of lows in their marketing.

     

    My addendum to your post is to not only never download from a popup, but watch your download folder for anything that suddenly appears and DELETE it immediately.

     

    Very wise advice indeed. I recommend keeping the Downloads folder completely empty so that you can more easily spot such illicit downloads.

  • by zenorac,

    zenorac zenorac Nov 28, 2012 10:28 AM in response to thomas_r.
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    Nov 28, 2012 10:28 AM in response to thomas_r.

    Yes, I monitor my downloads folder constantly and always keep it clear.  And, that is so true that a legitimate application would not need to find ways to get on your system unless you want it there. 

     

    What surprises me is that Zeobit can stay in business with this abhorent marketing startegy.  Well, I guess it shouldn't surprise me.  All we can do is keep putting the word out there to avoid them at all costs.  (Or your costs will be unavoidable. Ha Ha)

  • by thomas_r.,

    thomas_r. thomas_r. Nov 28, 2012 12:14 PM in response to zenorac
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    Nov 28, 2012 12:14 PM in response to zenorac

    What surprises me is that Zeobit can stay in business with this abhorent marketing startegy.

     

    Unfortunately, that doesn't surprise me at all. They are very aggressive marketers, and they resort to some pretty underhanded tricks to make a sale.

     

    Worse, there are people out there who don't understand the first thing about their computers who install MacKeeper and don't have problems. (Likely because they're not exploring many of the options and are for the most part not poking their system excessively with the sharp-stick-that-is-MacKeeepr.) They can become firmly convinced, with no actual data to back them up, that MacKeeper is keeping their system running well, when the Mac OS maintains itself and would be running well anyway. Plus, they have no grounds for comparison, and don't know that the OS could be running better without MacKeeper. These folks speak up in defense of MacKeeper, muddying the waters.

  • by Steve McRea,

    Steve McRea Steve McRea Nov 28, 2012 12:34 PM in response to thomas_r.
    Level 1 (99 points)
    Mac OS X
    Nov 28, 2012 12:34 PM in response to thomas_r.

    I think that for people who are just out of the novice catagory, but not experts (I put myself in that catagory) we have all at some point downloaded these different 'clean up' utilities.

     

    I remember about 6 years ago getting my first Mac.. a G5 Power Mac. One of the first things I did was load it up with all these so called 'utilities' that promised to make my machine better in some way. The big advert was "clean it up".. Spring Clean, Onyx were two that I can remember.

     

    I had nothing but trouble and on several occasions had to re-load OSx to get out of trouble.

     

    My advise to all people new to Macs is LEAVE IT ALONE!!.. let the wonderful OSx operating system do what it was designed to do and it will run forever! Don't waste your time or money on any of the utilities.. thank goodness Mackeeper wasn't around 6 years ago else I would certainly have been one of those people who downloded it.

     

    Now.. I'm going to say something controversial here and that is that I personally group Disk Warrior in with this crowd. I say this because it also managed to totally destroy my Tiger operating system at the time. I've heard great things said about it on this forum. I think that it is probably an OK tool but you need to keep it 100% up to date and don't use it just after a major update from apple. Give Alsoft time to catch up.

     

    But with OSx these days I don't think that you need ANYTHING apart from having a  good backup plan!

  • by AppleFixitGuy,

    AppleFixitGuy AppleFixitGuy Nov 28, 2012 1:23 PM in response to yanique
    Level 1 (15 points)
    Nov 28, 2012 1:23 PM in response to yanique

    I got mackeeper to try it and it works just fine for me. I don't find much use for it though. It basically just sits there.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Nov 28, 2012 1:48 PM in response to AppleFixitGuy
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    Nov 28, 2012 1:48 PM in response to AppleFixitGuy

    Try removing it.

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