Q: Is MacKeeper a legitimate program?

thomas_r. wrote:

They were paid to review MacKeeper, and did so without any real scrutiny.

To All,

Please find edited copies of 2 emails sent to me by Serge Sosnyak, at the time,  Marketing / PR of Zeobit LLC

Just in case anyone has still a shred of doubt on how it works ...

It was 2010. Shortly thereafter the marketing crap and scare tactics started and I did not pursue.  Nevertheless, if I recall correctly, the commission on sales was up to 30%.   To compare, Amazon gives you roughly 7%

At 25 -30%, I know a lot of guys that will simply post online what they have been kindly "suggested" to post, or find, after that the said product is doing nothing short of curing cancer. 

Fyi,  I still have the long headers, including IP's and all.  Just in case someone thinks they are made up emails. No, I will NOT post my email address: I am not Brendan.  

On MondayOct 25, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Serge Sosnyak wrote:

Dear ************,
********************Surely I will be able to provide you with a free license for testing MacKeeper for a review.
Please send me your registered mail on our site and I will be able to provide you with a free license.

**************

**************

*********************Also I can offer you to participate in our

affiliate program and get revenue working with us. I think this will be interesting for you. Please let me know what do you think on this?

*********************

Regards

Serge

I also received similar messages. Like this one:

Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:47:37 +0200
Subject: paid review of our products
From: Mike Clark
To: [redacted]

Hello Mr Reed,

We are interested in some consulting services from you. Could you please
get back with me and let me know what you would charge per hour for a
software review.


Thanks,

Mike Clark

When Mackeeper Software locks up your computer until you click on a paid service or force shutdown your system, it is NOT LEGIT.

That has nothing to do with MacKeeper. It's one of many scam sites that lock Safari to the page by creating a continuous JavaScript loop.

Force quit Safari. Hold the Shift key and relaunch it.

my Macbook pro goes of without me controlling it; please i need help, how do i uninstall mackeeper.

Help!!!!

Read this thread and the many others like it.

How do you uninstall MacKeeper?

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

I have used MacKeeper for five years and have never had any problems with it. I had a few questions over the years and got fantastic online help and advise. Nobody paid me to say any of this. I am suspicious of all the people posting negative things about MacKeeper. Someone is paying them maybe.

Swooperman wrote:

 

I have used MacKeeper for five years and have never had any problems with it. I had a few questions over the years and got fantastic online help and advise. Nobody paid me to say any of this. I am suspicious of all the people posting negative things a bout MacKeeper. Someone is paying them maybe.

Really? Your only post here is to praise MacKeeper, and you are accusing people of being paid to speak about how bad MacKeeper really is? Yeah, no bias there at all. Perhaps the folks that initiated the class action lawsuit against MacKeeper would convince you of the vile App that is MacKeeper.

I can only speak of my own experience. I see all of the negatives on the internet and it scares me. So I come here to see what people have to say. I just felt it was my duty to express myself honestly. I think people are afraid to say anything good about MacKeeper.

Swooperman wrote:

 

I can only speak of my own experience. I see all of the negatives on the internet and it scares me. So I come here to see what people have to say. I just felt it was my duty to express myself honestly. I think people are afraid to say anything good about MacKeeper.

And you feel ALL these negative comments are from paid shills? There is a very good reason there are so many negative comments.

That was my response to people saying that anyone with a positive view of macKeeper was being paid. And I said "maybe"  but the opposite side said "for Sure" anyone with positive comments are being paid.

Many of the people here that do not recommend 3rd party products that offer to Protect, Clean, or Improve the Mac have generally helped in posts from people that were having problems with their Macs.  After removing the 3rd party additions their Macs were back to normal.  After you see this a few hundred times, you start to form an opinion about 3rd party additions.  Very few of them positive.

It is good you are not having any problems with your Mac.  But if in the future you upgrade your operating system and find that it is not behaving well, you should start looking at the 3rd party additions you have added.

Swooperman wrote:

 

I have used MacKeeper for five years and have never had any problems with it. I had a few questions over the years and got fantastic online help and advise. Nobody paid me to say any of this. I am suspicious of all the people posting negative things about MacKeeper. Someone is paying them maybe.

 

Well, I have always posted negative comments about MacKeeper. If you know who will pay me to make those negative comments, please let me know I can use the cast.

Seriously, I make negative comments because it has happened so frequently in the past when I am called in to help with a problem on a Mac if I find MacKeeper, I uninstall it and the problems goes away. After you do that a couple of times, a connection starts to develop that maybe MacKeeper is only good for causing problems on Mac.