Is MacKeeper for real?

There seems to be mixed opinions about it. Probably safest to avoid.

If you want software to do disk/system maintenance, you might consider OnyX, which is available from http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php . I've used this for years, and can recommend it.

If you want an anti-virus, use ClamXav from http://www.clamxav.com . Another program I've used for years and can recommend. I use it to scan incoming mail and downloads, with no issues.

Only if you want problems should you even consider MacKeeper because that is all it is good for.

Allan

imacfromfountain hills wrote:

Is this program beneficial or a scam?

Take a look at this article Beware MacKeeper and decide for yourself. Also contains some free/low cost alternatives.

Avoid it at all costs.

I saw this download and did the quick free trial and then saw that there was a highly discounted offer. I called the number and talked to a man with an accent. He was very convincing but then I asked him if he was in the US and he said no. I asked where he was from and he said, Ukraine. After instant disconnect I was wondering if I may have been talking to Peggy......

This is a scam, Ukraine is famous for being the best at identity theft. Apple should put a huge warning out there on these guys...

How is Peggy doing?

Now that you have me thinking about it, I wonder if that advertisement with Peggy was taken at MacKeeper's support office?

Allan

Oh man, too late I'm seeing this advice about avoiding MacKeeper. I downloaded it this morning, how do I delete the application from my hardware? Please help, I have no clue how to do it.

THanks,

Liz

Here is a site with direction on how to uninstall Mac Keeper.

http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/

Be sure to heed the warning about not ising the uninstaller from ZeoBit. It will only make things worst on your Mac.

Allan

There is a proven method for increasing your computers performance.

1: Download the free MacTracker and find your machine, determine it's true RAM potential and maximize the RAM to what your budget will allow.

2: If you have a hard drive and a blank external self powered (not BUS powered) HFS+ Journaled formatted drive (Disk Utility), download the free Carbon Copy Cloner and clone the internal to the external. Hold option key and boot from the external clone to check it out well before reverse cloning.

Then erase the OS X internal partition (Disk Utility) in Lion (or optional whole drive in Snow Leopard) and reverse clone. (if you erase the whole drive on Lion, it deletes the Lion Recovery Partition as well, but doing so may actually result in the best performance, although a alternative fresh install method of Lion will be required one day, either by Lion USB or 10.6 MacAppStore upgrade method. Clones must be maintained)

Doing the clone, boot, reverse clone procedure defragments and optimizes the drive data according to the alphabetical order of the items on the root directly, so Applications gets written to the fastest part of the drive first, the the others and finally Users (which changes more often) last where it can expand and contract into the more slower parts of a hard drive, the latter 50%. This also keep your drive optimized longer as User changes the most usually.

3: Run ALL the of the free OnyX for OS X, cleaning and maintainence aspects and reboot (especially after a reverse clone)

4: Uninstall any programs that slowing your machine down, if you can't simply reinstall OS X (without erasing the disk) over the installed version and then software updating. This will clear whatever out of OS X itself, still need to uninstall the applications and clear out the log in items.

5: Finally create a new user and transfer the files via the Shared Drop Box, when up on the second user, delete the first.

6: Accept your computer can only do what it can do or consider installing a 7,200 RPM hard drive or a SSD drive if it's not too expensive. Keep in mind, all parts of a computer must be fast, so a SSD alone doesn't always cut it as it just gets the data to the processors faster, if the processors are slow and the RAM isn't much, a inferior integrated Intel HD graphics, there really isn't much one can do and a expensive SSD might make little difference.

7: If you have a hard drive, consider keeping it's storage capacity below 50% and not more that 75% filled.

I did what you suggested Allan, thanks for your help.

Cheers.

I think uninstalling per my directions here may be more comprehensive.

Well Allen I think Peggy is doing just fine with all the credit cards he is using in the great Ukraine.

Hope this gets shut down really quick...

MB

MacKeeper is running ads on the SpeedTest, hoping to catch all the Mac users testing their internet connection speed.

It seems to me whoever is behind MacKeeper has a lot of money to infect a lot of Mac's.

So far I've heard whining from a lot of folks in the Mac community, however I haven't seen anyone actually examine the code of MacKeeper yet.

Any takers?

Who in their right mind would want to enter that cesspool anyway? The simpliest solution is to avoid it at all cost like the plague.

Allan

Probably not a scam, in the malicious sense.

I bought it for the undelete function and then never used it again.

Why did I need undelete, I hear you ask. I bought a new MBP from an Apple Reseller and when it arrived it had two dents on the top case and children's fingerprints on the screen. Clearly it had been used. When I complained the reseller said "This is impossible because we do not have any children working in this company." When I ran undelete I found several GB of Ruby on Rails and Editra files. Make of that what you will. They continued to deny and Apple head office had very little interest in the case.