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MacKeeper...? Good or Bad?

BAD. AWFUL. TERRIBLE.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR ASSOCIATE YOU'RE MACBOOK WITH ANYTHING RELATED TO MACKEEPER.

I was scanning through a regular website when a "pop up" link came up. It stated "Clean you're Mac" and the only option was "ok". If you're like me, you were scared to click ok, because you know.... Its a MacBook and its crazy expensive. I also have extremely personal info on my computer that I could not afford to get damaged. So... What did I do? At first I paniced... I'm an over anxious person so when I saw this whole thing I was completely shocked. So I tried to turn off my computer. It wouldn't work because the safari was still running... Whoever is behind this MacKeeper virus thing is one clever guy. Anywho, there are other options out of it. If you're uneducated like me (ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I'VE ONLY HAD MY MAC FOR 2 MONTHS!) the simpliest thing to do is use key commands. To FORCE safari to stop use command, control, esp. This ends safari. But whenever you open the darn thing, this tricky pop up window comes with it. Don't press ok. I do not trust MacKeeper in ANY way, and like I said, if you love you're MacBook, MacKeeper is just asking for a whole bunch of trouble. So now you're stuck with this tricky pop up window. Yep, for now it hijacked you're safari. However, safari is a powerful browser. After a couple of hours and tries of me opening Safari and forcing it to stop this MacKeeper virus began to give up. So now I have safari back I'm still remaining extra causious because the MacKeeper virus will stay on you're browser for awhile. Thats what I would think of course.

If you ever come across the MacKeeper website, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT. Thats my BEST advice. Think its 100% trustworthy? No. 50% of websites asking for you're computers permission to download them on the internet are not trustworthy. If you want to erase you're hard drive, make you're MacBook slow, and download random dangerous stuff to you're MacBook, be my guest. But MacKeeper is a devil, a tricky virus. I have heard things such as getting weird skype calls, having MacKeeper download its self, and other mystic weird things.

SAVE YOU'RE MACBOOK, DO NOT GET MACKEEPER.

If you're really concerened, bring you're Macintosh computer into an apple store nearby you for help.

Posted on Aug 12, 2012 4:52 AM

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MacKeeper...? Good or Bad?

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