Is MacKeeper a legitimate program?

I wrote one of the positive to neutral posts, I post positive as well as negative, I believe it is our duty to post evenly on each side. This doesn't mean I make up posts, but I try to post on a good experience for every bad experience when they come along. Without positive posts people cannot make informed decisions. I honestly log into many sites and write reviews with positive opinions and have never been paid by anyone. After reading many of the informative posts I decided to remove MacKeeper from both of my computers. Nothing seemed to change, I upgraded to the new OS and had an issue with some functionality of Mail. While on line with a Apple tech he said "God is your computer slow" he walked me thru a couple of key sequences that reset some stuff and my MacBook much faster now and still MacKeeper free. I still work about Viruses but am not convinced MacKeeper helps with that.

'nuff said

Full article

http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/01/21/64695.htm Quoted below

"CHICAGO (CN) - A class action claims ZeoBIT defrauds customers by saying its MacKeeper software can spot performance problems on Mac computers, but labels every computer as "at risk" and in need of repair.

Lead plaintiff Gregory Ward sued ZeoBIT, a California LLC, in Cook County Chancery Court.

"ZeoBIT develops software that it claims will increase the speed, performance, and stability of a consumer's Macintosh personal computer by removing harmful errors, and eliminating privacy and security threats," the complaint states.

"Unfortunately, as described more fully herein, ZeoBIT uses a common deceptive scheme to trick consumers into purchasing its MacKeeper software, which ultimately fails to deliver the utility ZeoBIT promises."

I believe Squirrels use their sense of smell to find nuts.

About time. Very cool. Hope they win big time and maybe put them out of business.

I use the speedtest.net site as well as their ios app and noticed that, if you have adblock turned off, they have ads for MacKeeper prominently displayed.

I wrote them to let them know about the product they are getting ad dollars from (I assume) and linked to this discussion and they replied:

"Unfortunately, there seems to be confusion between MacKeeper (a legit app) and MacDefender (the Mac malware purporting to be anti-virus that caused issues).

The application advertised on Speedtest.net is legitimate, and you can find more information on Zeobit's website: http://zeobit.com/

http://www.cultofmac.com/170522/is-mackeeper-really-a-scam/

Thank you for your concern and patience.

Best Regards,
Speedtest.net Support"

So I told them there is no confusion at all and sent them the courtnews link you provided. We'll see how they reply to that. 😉

I'd be curious how they reply, too.

Eric Nelson2 wrote:

We'll see how they reply to that.

I imagine they will blame it on the advertising aggregator service they contract with, like most other sites have told us in the past. They have very little control over the actual content of of what is served to them in rotation. I suppose if they get enough complaints they will push back on that service, but in most cases these sites don't have any contact with the companies that are being advertised.

The mac school, quoted (2012)

"I am surprised that MacKeeper has not been hit by a class action law suit yet."

http://themacschool.blogspot.com/2012/09/mackeeper-is-scam.html

There is also a piece quoted from Reed where you can REALLY see the level of disgustingness of MacKeeper.

I sent Speedtest [dot] net a similar e-mail, probably more than a year ago at this point. They were similarly unwilling to hear what I said. I have since stopped using them entirely, and no longer recommend them to anyone else.

All my speed testing now is done with:

http://speedof.me

This site has no ads, and also has the advantage of not being Flash- or Java-based. It's pure HTML, so it works on anything, and requires no plugins.

EXCELLENT! It's high time that someone did this. Good for them.

Thomas, just a FYI about speeddofme. I tried it a few times and it consistently returned what I thought were inflated results (not saying that is deliberate, just may be in the nature of the program.)

If you don't want to use speedtest.net, there are any number of other Flash based options that don't appear to have the MacKeeper ads--at least I haven't heard of there being any on these. It's impossible for me to know just what advertsing there may be, since I use a AdBlockPlus, which is very effective at keeping out all ads. I've never seen an MK ad on speedtest.net.

I'm sure you know about all of these, but as a just in case and for anyone else reading this thread.

http://my.verizon.com/services/speedtest/

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?flash=1

I'll keep using them as I never see the ads unless I turn off adblock or use their iphone app, but I understand. I've not been burned by the MK app so I've no grudge per se, but as I told them in my first note to them:

"As a legitimate and respected site, you might want to reconsider having MacKeeper as a prominent advertiser."

So they will have to rethink their relationship assuming it's within their abilty to change as MadMacs0 mentioned the aggregator possibilty.

Ok so, ...

With my having read through much of the discussion—both here within this particular thread, and also elsewhere here—regarding this resource, or "resource alleged" ...

And with the over-all consensus evidently being that its highly suspect of being mal-aligned with a more correct approach where considering both the spirit of "Macintosh", or either what it purports to "do"—where considering its different main elements, ...

{.. And / And If with, my in fact having purchased the program about a year ago, my having noted only one problem that it may have contributed to / generated, more application related for me over that time; .. this, with where otherwise looked at its not appearing to have slown down my broader general operations .. speed wise, ...}

.. As opposed to the main scan and "fix" that it does more generally (Which I had, trusted more certainly, before having read through what I have here—again both above and elsewhere here.), ...

What's the main application of choice being put forward at this point (i.e. more "these days", whether here or elsewhere), usable toward doing / running this kind of more routine type maintenance check of things on my machine. ?

— i.e. Some kind of "scan and fix", general clean-up, general health check, of my 2009 dual core "iMac", still running "Snow Leopard" / 10.6.8 more specifically. ... ?

Appreciate your time.

What's the main application of choice being put forward at this point (i.e. more "these days", whether here or elsewhere), usable toward doing / running this kind of more routine type maintenance check of things on my machine. ?

— i.e. Some kind of "scan and fix", general clean-up, general health check, of my 2009 dual core "iMac", still running "Snow Leopard" / 10.6.8 more specifically. ... ?

None are required.

Lanny wrote:

None are required.

.. "defragmentation". ?

"Junk files" ? ( .. as referred to by this program.)

— I've in fact had trouble with these things / ideas in the past, on and with older systems.

Has "'Apple" addressed these issues more general perhaps at some point along the line since: .. perhaps with the main transition to OS X, or with that from one of its earlier main versions to the next previous to "Snow Leopard". ?

.. I've recently read about, "Clean App" (was it. ?), suitable for different odd elements of different Apps, left behind with and after their respective (more general) "uninstallation". So this idea, I'm not too concerned with here.