I got a pop-up telling me to click on MacKeeper 911 to "clean my computer". I don't know anything about MacKeeper...is this legit or is it a scam / virus?

BDAqua wrote:

Not harmless here, I've had to unistall it on ever Mac Ihave. 😟

Not that it did anything malicious, just messed with everything.

Hi BDAqua are you referring to Growl or Mackeeper? If Growl - and HP installer installed with its printer driver what are the issues with removing it, if any. Did you use the Growl uninstall. Any information is welcome, I read the Growl page but not sure whether to believe what is there. Thanks

After MacKeeper I have become extremely nervous about intrusive software, espacially stuff that installs itself without asking on the back of other programs you are installing.

You can totally believe everything you read on the Growl site and they have the most responsive support forum I have ever seen. No profit motive, just dedicated coders trying to do good stuff for the Mac community.

MadMacs0 wrote:

You can totally believe everything you read on the Growl site and they have the most responsive support forum I have ever seen. No profit motive, just dedicated coders trying to do good stuff for the Mac community.

Thanks for the information. I have posted in the HP printer forum to ask the situation if Growl is installed or uninstalled, I am waiting to see the response.

Undernormal circumstances I wouldn't have given it a second thought, but after all the trouble with MacKeeper I have become extremely cautious.

I have a discussion about this. I contacted the support people. They appeared to NOT speak English and had no knowlege about MacKeeper.

Also, I agree that Growl is a very good program. I have it. On the other hand, I think Apple should advise Mac users NOT to download MacKeeper!

your software is crap... WARNING TO EVERYONE DONT INSTALL IT, read about it on the internet forums.

my opinion IT IS AN EPIDEMIC OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE FOR YOU MAC.

you are on there payroll, and i will tell the truth to everyone who will listen.

and that business is not a good one it make honest peoples computers drift dead in cyber space, you can tell all the lies you want but if it was a good software there would not be so many complains.

This company is from where? you want evidence YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH.....

BDAqua wrote:

Not harmless here, I've had to unistall it on ever Mac Ihave. 😟

Not that it did anything malicious, just messed with everything.

I never let it install when I bump in to it, but i have not heard anything particularly bad about it

Memoire wrote:

MadMacs0 wrote:

You can totally believe everything you read on the Growl site and they have the most responsive support forum I have ever seen. No profit motive, just dedicated coders trying to do good stuff for the Mac community.

Thanks for the information. I have posted in the HP printer forum to ask the situation if Growl is installed or uninstalled, I am waiting to see the response.

Undernormal circumstances I wouldn't have given it a second thought, but after all the trouble with MacKeeper I have become extremely cautious.

If Growl is installed there will be an icon for it in System Preferences.

> This company is from where?

Silicon valley Head office

2227, 2-nd floor

PlugandPlayTechCenter

440 N. Wolfe Rd.

Sunnyvale, CA 94085

About a ten minute drive from my house.

> i have not heard anything particularly bad about it

Have you read http://www.reedcorner.net/news.php/?p=245 ?

http://mac-security.blogspot.com/

that says it all!

Until now? Google MacKeeper, and you'll see a million complaints. Look in Apple Discussions alone...

MadMacs0 wrote:

> i have not heard anything particularly bad about it

Have you read http://www.reedcorner.net/news.php/?p=245 ?

BDAqua wrote (about Growl):

Not harmless here, I've had to unistall it on ever Mac Ihave. 😟

Not that it did anything malicious, just messed with everything.

Csound1 wrote:

I never let it install when I bump in to it, but i have not heard anything particularly bad about it

MadMacs0 was quoting a reply to a post about Growl by Csound1, not MacKeeper, when he said that. The discussion went briefly OT from MacKeeper to Growl. At this point, it's very difficult to imagine anyone who's been paying the least bit of attention to these discussions who would say that about MacKeeper. In fact, in the same post he even links to an article describing the problems with MacKeeper. MadMacs0 has been involved with this since early on.

Oh yeah....got confused. And I thought this was a different discussion 😕

Well here's how it appears to be: Growl is a great app, but I heard it's going to be shareware soon. It's very responsible.

MacKeeper is just a scam that will be worse than any Mac malware, and its uninstaller doesn't do @#$%.

Sorry about the mix up earlier.

Mac OS 9000 wrote:

Well here's how it appears to be: Growl is a great app, but I heard it's going to be shareware soon. It's very responsible.

Actually, it's only available via the AppStore for Lion at I believe $1.99 since v1.3 a month or so ago. You can still downloaded older versions for Mac OS X 10.3-10.6 from the web site, but they won't be updated.

Agree that it's a great app.