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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 Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Dec 5, 2011 6:47 PM in response to filmandy
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    Dec 5, 2011 6:47 PM in response to filmandy

    Cleaning up caches is a false way to improve the performance of your system.

     

    Caches are in fact designed to speed it up so deleting them only slows it down.

     

    True there are occasions when it does happen that they become corrupt and can cause a system slow down. The last time I cleaned up my cache was so long ago I can't even remember when it was now.

     

    To have some to clean caches I place in the same category as having something here in Colorado to scare off elephants.

     

    I generally consider MacKeeper a waste of money and way to cause your Mac to be less reliable rather then more.

     

    Allan

  • by babowa,

    babowa babowa Dec 5, 2011 6:52 PM in response to thomas_r.
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    Dec 5, 2011 6:52 PM in response to thomas_r.
    Zeobit has put significant effort into trying to get me to change my story, including (no joke) offering me a job.

     

    You are serious?????

  • by softwater,

    softwater softwater Dec 5, 2011 7:04 PM in response to babowa
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    Dec 5, 2011 7:04 PM in response to babowa

    They did the same with me. It's their common tactic. First threaten legal action, then try to buy you off.

     

    They asked me to name a price for 'selling' the rights (not to) publish my post, and then offered me a job as a consultant ''to help improve their product."

  • by thomas_r.,

    thomas_r. thomas_r. Dec 5, 2011 7:14 PM in response to babowa
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    Dec 5, 2011 7:14 PM in response to babowa

    Absolutely.  If I had been willing to sell out, they seemed quite willing to hire me to write a review, with the price per hour to be named by me.  I suppose I could have pulled their strings a bit to see exactly what they'd have been willing to give me for a positive review, but I didn't really want to fool with that, so I simply never responded.

     

    Because I didn't do that, I'm sure they could turn around and say "Oh, you misunderstood!"  Just like they can now say that they don't have any responsibility for the clamxav.org site, since its ownership is now obscured behind a company that specializes in hiding the real ownership of domain names.  They're sneaky devils who know how to make a scam look good!

  • by cillonecaha,

    cillonecaha cillonecaha Dec 5, 2011 9:35 PM in response to yanique
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    Dec 5, 2011 9:35 PM in response to yanique

    I have already told my situation, but just in case someone is wondering what to do, after I installed MacKeeper, I could not open my Microsoft Files at all, which meant I could not access any of my documents. I had to go and buy a new Microsoft Office and install it, as I had lost my original Installation CD. I would not go near MacKeeper. It really made my life **** for about a week.

  • by CliveBixby,

    CliveBixby CliveBixby Dec 15, 2011 8:13 AM in response to yanique
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    Dec 15, 2011 8:13 AM in response to yanique

    im sorry this doesnt pertain to the topic but i figured its good to ask questions specially if your not very smart with computers. haha so what do you people recommend in terms of a software that can do its job? im very glad i decided to do some research on this lousy software because i was JUST about to purchase it. so really thank you guys love the feedback

  • by softwater,

    softwater softwater Dec 15, 2011 8:21 AM in response to CliveBixby
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    Dec 15, 2011 8:21 AM in response to CliveBixby

    What functions does MacKeeper have that you want, specifically?

     

    As far as I understand it, MacKeeper is a compendium of lots of different functions that are available already in the OS or via other free software. Putting them together into one app is, in itself, a nice idea, but it would seem to be that the "developers" have done this

     

    i. poorly, from a system resource management perspective,  and

     

    ii. with an aim to either (or both)

    — collect user information to sell on to marketing companies (perhaps...)

    — to display ads for their own or other 'affiliates' products

     

    You won't find another program that is such a rag-bag compendium of diverse functions, but you will find others that do some or all of the legitimate functions (i.e., don't require you to give the developer unnecesary personal information).

     

    Tell us your needs, I'm sure the list will be able to offer recommendations.

  • by CliveBixby,

    CliveBixby CliveBixby Dec 15, 2011 11:11 AM in response to softwater
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    Dec 15, 2011 11:11 AM in response to softwater

    i guess it was just from reading some blog someone had posted on some website comparing the mackeeper to other products and prices and it just caught my attention completely. haha

    it just had everything on freeing space, theft protection etc etc...at the end it did sound fishy to me.

    but im just more interested on freeing some space on my hard drive or just keeping it clean overall. what do you think?

  • by eww,

    eww eww Dec 15, 2011 11:19 AM in response to CliveBixby
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    Dec 15, 2011 11:19 AM in response to CliveBixby

    To free up space on your hard drive, use your own noggin, and delete files that you have saved and no longer need. The largest files you've saved — which are often feature films — are the first ones to consider removing, because you may be able to recover as much space by deleting one such file as you could by deleting thousands of smaller ones.

     

    If you can't free up enough space that way, you need to replace your hard drive with a larger one.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Dec 15, 2011 11:29 AM in response to CliveBixby
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    Dec 15, 2011 11:29 AM in response to CliveBixby

    i guess it was just from reading some blog someone had posted on some website comparing the mackeeper to other products and prices and it just caught my attention completely.

     

    That was almost certainly one of the fake Google-bombing review sites created by the MacKeeper developer. There were at least a dozen of them, the last time I checked.

  • by thomas_r.,

    thomas_r. thomas_r. Dec 15, 2011 12:48 PM in response to Linc Davis
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    Dec 15, 2011 12:48 PM in response to Linc Davis

    That depends on what Clive meant.  It's a little unclear, but I thought it sounded like he could have been describing my article on MacKeeper, where I go through all the features of MacKeeper and explain how to do those things free or cheaply with other software or built-in features of the OS.  If that's the page he was looking at, that's not a fake review! 

     

    My page can be found here:

     

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

     

    (Note that my pages contain links to other pages that promote my services, and this should not be taken as an endorsement of my services by Apple.)

  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Dec 15, 2011 1:02 PM in response to thomas_r.
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    Dec 15, 2011 1:02 PM in response to thomas_r.

    Please boys, this thread is dead already... don't waste your intellect to something like this, use it to solve real problems.....

    Merry Christmas,

    Lex

  • by hoffmb,

    hoffmb hoffmb Dec 27, 2011 5:10 PM in response to yanique
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    Dec 27, 2011 5:10 PM in response to yanique

    Do not download.  You can use this proces to rid yourself of the popup as long as you have not clicked on OK.

     

    Make sure you enable the use of assistative devices in the universal access panel of the system preferences pane.

     

    Next open Apple script editor, located in the applications/utiliies folder.  Then run the script below (copy and paste then click the run button).  You will get an error about the user folder but ignore, your safari should be reset and normal again.  This only works if you did not click OK on the mackeepr ad, and thus have not downloaded the program.

     

    tell application "Safari" to activate

    tell application "System Events"

              tell application process "Safari"

                        click menu item "Reset Safari…" of menu "Safari" of menu bar 1

                        try

                                  click button "Reset" of window 1

                        end try

              end tell

    end tell

    quit application "Safari"

    tell application "Finder"

              select every item of folder "LocalStorage" of folder "Safari" of folder "Library" of folder "USER" of folder "Users" of startup disk

      move selection to the trash

      close Finder window "LocalStorage"

    end tell

    return input

    end run

  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Dec 28, 2011 12:32 AM in response to hoffmb
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    Dec 28, 2011 12:32 AM in response to hoffmb

    Yanique has dissapeared. Seems to have made only ONE post (the one that started this thread, May 14). I do not know what to think about that. FYI, I think that Glimmerblocker is a good way to eliminate (most/all?) Mackeeper ads.

    It is rather difficult to uninstall and eliminate all entries on your computer, but there are some threads here giving good advice.

  • by Tom Perkins1,

    Tom Perkins1 Tom Perkins1 Jan 1, 2012 12:31 PM in response to yanique
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    Jan 1, 2012 12:31 PM in response to yanique

    At the threat of being water-boarded for re-engaging this thread, I am visiting my son in Virginia and his three year old mac is going megaslow and the hard drive is almost full. So I mentioned...MacKeeper as a way of cleaning it up and making it run faster. But, I did check out AD after that remark (no, I don't know why I didn't do that in the first place when I "found" MacKeeper) and came across this, uh, discussion. So, briefly:

    1. Ignorance is bliss. For some strange reason MacKeeper "worked" for me, as in no pop ups, no slow down, no chunks of metal in the transmission, and a bucket more of free space.

    2. I would say that I find this thread still appropriate because I was able to find "Reeds Corner" which has become a wealth of help in how to clean up my son's Mac without downloading other software.

    3. I had "Spring Cleaning" for several years but more than once I paid dearly for eliminating "unnecessary" files. I finally uninstalled it.

    3. I am techno-impaired to the Mac (ha-ha, a little pun-levity here...) so AD is where I always go for help and you all are both helpful and gracious with my sophomoric inquests into the world of Macdom.

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