Q: is it safe to download the mackeeper?

They gave me the refund on 4th April 2012. I post this in the interest of fairness to the company.

Hi super granny,

This is a very sincere thankyou for pointing out appdelete.    

I had downloaded mackeeper but did not activate it, yet there were peculiar effects on my Macpro that were not there previous to the download. The most obvious effect was slowing down, particularly graphics. It was nearly driving me nuts, until I found out about appdelete by reading your topic.      mackeeper is now gone and my Macpro is back to normal.

Again I thank you,

Bob Adam.

• IT'S NOT SAFE!!! =)
• IT WILL JUST GIVE YOU PROBLEMS
  
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I bought this piece of junk. Everyday it felt like I was at the beach with all of the dam beach balls flying my way.

This thing slows your system down terribly bad. STAY AWAY FROM THIS JUNK!

On the slightly different topic of  'App removal' apps.

I have used App Zapper http://www.appzapper.com/ for quite a few years now starting with my old G5 running Tiger. I'm still using this on my new imac running Lion and am still very happy with it.

It's a very simple little GUI that you drop in your app and it clears all of the associated files with a nice satisfying "powww" of a noise

Of course I've NEVER downloaded Mac Keeper and neither am I likely to so I dont know if it would clean everything out that this malware app contaminates.

''This is why I don't Subscribe to Mac forums.I've never met a group of people,that were so Strident,and closed minded and Militant in all their views,from everything to copying dvd's to antivirusware to Anything even remotly

outside of mainstream Apple thinking...You people are truly UNBELIVABLE!!!!!!!''

..you're here tho, soo..

You might be able to trick a handful of Mac users to download this crapware, but it must be hard for you to sleep at night in your MacKeeper-logo pajamas knowing that the scam has been exposed.

Well I have given it a try. On reflection was not the cleverist thing i've ever done, but in a way it was a test to see how it went as I knew several inexperienced mac users has bought this. Having trialled it, I can say that it did have "limited" uses, and did cause some problems although not as severe as some have mentioned. I removed it using appdelete for which i was happy to pay a few $'s. I will be checking through system just to make sure nothing is left but so far appdelete seems to have done the biz.

Having tried it I will now be recomending to everyone I know to remove this program from their Macs as it does seem to have the potential to cause slow downs and various forms of crazyness in your computer.

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the report!

I did the exact same thing with the exact same results.  Hopefully enough people are getting the word out so no one else has to go through the Mackeeper nightmare. 

Hi Robert,

Firstly, I am not a computer wizard as you guys are.    Previously I also did as you described using appdelete, but I found after a while that it didn't totally remove all the mackeeper files.  I then used the instructions from Phil Stokes at http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware.    I hope I've done the correct thing, but my computer seems to be normal now.   Have I done the correct thing ?

Hi bobadam

Yes I would say you have done the right thing. A bit concerned that appdelete missed some stuff, i will need to double check my own system.

As to me being a computer wizard I'm not really. A few years ago i could have just about called myself competent but have not really been keping up with recent stuff as much as i should have. Now approaching silver surfer status

If you do have any problems just post back here and one of the REAL experts will help you out.

Two days ago while browsing my cursor apparently touched an ad for MacKeeper which then promptly downloaded itself without asking  and took over Safari. Once I reset Safari  I did not install MacKeeper as its behavior seemed thuggish and dangerous.  I immediately trashed it and with "Secure Empty Trash." Despite this, MacKeeper appears to have done some harm - - even without being installed - - Spotlight's database seems to have been damaged as it it has been rebuilding itself immediately after this encounter  - I'm hoping that this does not mean that Spotlight's database was transmitted to Zeobit. I've checked in all the places where one might find traces of it, but found nothing. Of course programs that download themselves without asking may have invisible components/ However Intego's Virus Barrier X6 has found nothing so far.  I have no idea why a Lite version of this thuggish software is for sale on Apple's App Store or why it has some defenders in the Mac community such as Cult of Mac and a positive review in MacWorld. All I can say is stay away!

A number of the users I help support have gotten suckered into installing MacKeeper. Then once they have discovered the error of their way, they attempted to use either the Zeobit uninstaller or one of the app delete programs. Only to discover that MacKeeper was actually worst.

At this point they called me in to help them. It took me a couple of days work to get everything the MacKeeper had done to their systems removed.

So far in all times that I have had to remove MacKeeper, I have found Phil Stokes' procedure to be the best way to get rid of it.

Allan

Thanks Allan,

The thing is that I never installed MacKeeper Instead, I immediately trashed the installer that had downloaded itself without asking. None of the components that Phil Stokes lists are visibly present on my computer. Nonetheless "something" happened that caused Spotlight to start rebuilding its databasa immediately after this incident. Spotlight also doesn't seem to be making much progress as yesterday it estimated that it would take 4 days to rebuild its database while today it estimates 8 days to rebuild it.