is it safe to download the mackeeper?

Your answer is no its not safe period.

NicW

It appears you are in the third group.

How much are they paying you for your review?

I bought this in April 2016 for £77 and it has never worked correctly. I have now tried to contact them bt they do not reply. I have deleted this from my macbook pro, but don;t feel they should get away with selling me such a programme which does not work. What should I do?

Flossie1,

Never buy anything advertised as being security for your mac without checking it out, either here (by asking a direct question) or looking it up by feeding in the name (in this case Mackeeper) in the search link top right.

How do I go about sorting this out with these mavericks? I am out £77 and they don't reply. Have other people been had this way. I shall now just use Clean my Mac or can you suggest something else?

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Do not use clean My Mac or any other item of that type. Your Mac should not need any attention of that nature. If you have a particular problem start a new thread. Mackeeper are unlikely to reply and less likely to repay you. I hate to say this but the effort of pursuing it isn't worth your current losses but if it was supplied from a British address you could look at the small claims court. I cannot advise further on legal matters.

Does one not need to have something to keep one's Mac clean and healthy or is it simply not required?

I would say to use the tools included on your mac.

But if you need a 3rd party i would say use CleanMyMac as that is not a scam

Mackeeper is a scam delete it if you have installed it

DO NOT download Clean My Mac. Any and all programs claiming to "clean" your Mac serve no purpose. Clean My Mac in particular is a well known scam just like MacKeeper, and has been known to cause harm to Macs. Search these forums for "clean my Mac" and see for yourself.

Flossie, I (and now others more senior to me) have told you you do not need clean my mac or any other of its kind. Your Mac will look after itself unless you go walking on the wild side. Browse with care and do not download from sites you are not fully acquainted with. As I said. If you really have a specific problem start a new thread and tell us about it.

From what I have seen in my testing of CleanMyMac, I must disagree with your recommendation of CMM. Besides not being able to actually do a very good job of clean up a Mac, it had a habit of deleting things that crippled the operating systems. For this reason I strongly recommend it not be installed on Macs.

Thank you so much Linc. What do you recommend? my system is so very very slow. and I have followed all of the generic "speed up" information I have found online for months. It was never this slow before. And things have only sped up minimally for a few days then back to slow again.

Is it because programs/browsers/etc. use up more memory cpu than five years ago?

I just need to know if the capabilities of this hardware are at their max, or if there is literally junk I can clean up or get to in order to make this computer perform at a generally satisfactory speed.

Startup is SO slow. Like I said, I have tried SO many things. Everythign I can find sans downloading an application or program to "cleanup".

sierra 10.12.1

iMac 21.5 inch, late 2009

processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

startup mac HD

graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB

Download and run Etrecheck from http://etrecheck.com/

Post the resulting report here. I HIGHLY recommend you start a new thread to do so instead of tacking on to this one.

etrecheck is a diagnostic tool that will give us (and you) more information as to your system configuration, and what's running on it that may be slowing things down, allowing us to make recommendations for fixing it.

THIS IS A LIE!!!!!!! DO NOT DOWNLOAD MACKEEPER!!!!!!! I downloaded mackeeper and all it does is open new windows when I go to safari. When I try to click on mackeeper to uninstall it or quit it mackeeper opens about 15 different windows and my mouse turns into the spiny rainbow wheel of death. DO NOT DOWNLOAD MACKEEPER!!!!!!!

Not only is it a lie, but the original post is nearly 5 and a half years old and that almost turns it into fable. If you still have a problem do what we have advised over the years.

Start a new thread, set out your problem and people will answer you. Most people will skip this post for its antiquity.