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Q: Do you agree with me that mackeeper is a very bad software? I installed yesterday, it ran only once. After it didn't recognize the clue. I had a hard problem to unsinstalle it. I am trying to recover $39,50 I paid for it. Never install mackeeper.

Do you agree with me that mackeeper is a very bad software? I installed yesterday, it ran only once. After it didn't recognize the clue. I had a hard problem to unsinstall it. I am trying to recover $39,50 I paid for it. Never install mackeeper. Sure ilness will arrive.

I fill very bad from Chile.

 

Ricardo

iMac, iOS 6.1.6

Posted on Mar 20, 2014 8:48 AM

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  • by Allan Jones,

    Allan Jones Allan Jones Mar 20, 2014 9:16 AM in response to elpeneca
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    Mar 20, 2014 9:16 AM in response to elpeneca

    Welcome to ASC!

     

    Yes, it is bad and very much portrayed as such here. To the right of your post is a section labeled "More Like This." You can review a sampling of comments there.

     

    You may also find this article interesting, posted on one of the most trusted Mac security sites:

     

    http://www.thesafemac.com/beware-mackeeper/

  • by a brody,Solvedanswer

    a brody a brody Mar 20, 2014 10:13 AM in response to elpeneca
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    Mar 20, 2014 10:13 AM in response to elpeneca

    Yes, MacKeeper is very bad:

     

    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3036

     

    What's worse is that sites that normally are reliable use them for making money off their advertisements, such as http://www.macupdate.com/

     

    I've tried to ask those sites not to let MacKeeper advertise on their sites, but they won't budge.

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Mar 20, 2014 1:06 PM in response to elpeneca
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    Mar 20, 2014 1:06 PM in response to elpeneca

    Apps like MacKeeper or any other maintenance apps like CleanMyMac 1 or 2, TuneUpMyMac or anything like these apps, installed on your Mac, while they appear to be helpful, can do too good a job of data "cleanup" causing the potential to do serious data corruption or data deletion and render a perfectly running OS completely dead and useless leaving you with a frozen, non-functional Mac.

    Plus, these type of apps aren't really necessary. They really aren't.

    There are manual methods to clear off unnecessary data off of your Mac that are safer and you have complete control over your Mac and not just leave a piece of auto cleaning software in charge of clearing off data off of your Mac.

    These types of apps potential of causing OS X issues outweighs the implied good and benefits these types of hard drive or memory "cleaning" apps are written to do.

    Plus, the software companies that write these apps make it hard to easily uninstall these apps if something DOES go wrong and these apps work in a way where you have no recovery or revert function to return your Mac back to its former, working state in the event something does go wrong.

    Apps that have no obvious way or uninstall themselves or do not come with a dedicated uninstaller app to uninstall the app in question should be avoided and NOT even considered for download, install and use.

    It is best to never, EVER download and install these types of apps.

    The risk to your system and data is too great a risk!