MacKeeper
Perhaps this has been discussed before but I posted about a slow running computer yesterday and I thought more discussion might be helpful to me as well as others.
The first response I received had a link to MacKeeper which I followed and installed on my computer. Long story...short. MK scanned and alerted me that I had a couple of critical issues so I ran the clean up only to be alerted that everything would be "cleaned" if I purchased the software. The software threw my default browser out of whack so that FaceBook and YouTube were no longer working properly. Luckily another forum poster gave me a link to clean MacKeeper off my computer. It's amazing how insideous this sofware was but I finally got things back to normal. Here's the catch...my computer has stopped hanging/buffering on videos which was the main complaint I was orginally having. Moral...MacKeeper can't be all bad?
This episode prompted more questions for me.
1. I was always told that with a Mac I need not worry about viruses/malware. Is this a falicy? If it is then, is there a reliable, hopefully freeware solution to optimizing my compters performance?
2. My computer is two years old and I've had no problems...because of that I have neglected setting up Time Machine. Now I will certainly turn it on but in trying to do that the first dialog box that shows up is asking about not detecting my wireless connection? I'm confused since my wireless internet connection is working just fine. Also I don't see what that has to do with backing up my computer.
Seems like I had more questions but that's a start....
Thanks