Is MacBooster safe

The two most common causes of slowness you describe is a hard disc over 85% full, and/or files and folders on your desktop. If your situation is the second one I mentioned, please move all of the files/folders to your home drive, restart your machine, and see if that works.

mivici wrote:

files and folders on your desktop. If your situation is the second one I mentioned, please move all of the files/folders to your home drive, restart your machine, and see if that works.

Actually, that is now a myth. Once upon a time, it used to be true that icons on the desktop had a significant impact on performance, because under the hood, early versions of Mac OS X drew each icon as a separate window. That has not been the case for quite a few years now, though, so at this point having too many files on the desktop is merely an eyesore and organizational problem, and nothing more.

I have used MacBooster for almost a year now. It works just fine for me.

I agree that some of the stuff like caches and browser histories you can all clean it by yourself manually, but I am not a tech savy person,so I prefer a software that can take care all of these for me. All I need to do is to click few buttons, and boom it's done. MacBooster's price is also reasonable, and unlike some other software on Windows which charges you every year or even every month. For MacBooster, you only have to pay one time fee, and you can use it as long as you want.

Kiwi730 wrote:

I have used MacBooster for almost a year now. It works just fine for me.

I agree that some of the stuff like caches and browser histories you can all clean it by yourself manually

It's not a matter of whether to clean manually or not, it's a matter of not needing to clean at all. MacBooster, and all products like it, is snake oil. It serves no useful purpose, because Macs do not need this kind of "cleaning." See The myth of the dirty Mac.

If that's not enough to convince you, be aware that I've seen MacBooster being distributed lately through illegal websites packaged with adware. Typically, an illegal video streaming site will offer some kind of video player, and if you download an install it, you end up infected with adware and MacBooster. Since the MacBooster developers are allowing this as a means of increasing their sales, is it really a program you should trust?

(Fair disclosure: The Safe Mac is my site, and contains a Donate button, so I may receive compensation for providing links to The Safe Mac. Donations are not required.)

This is one that I love. Most OS X users see this as I don't know what, to me it's just a good working Unix desktop. A proprietary version of Hexley. Permissions can be checked with chmod at the command line, chown can change ownership and fsck will really do the job with maintaining this or any other Unix machine. Shall we keep going on with the command line, would you like me to write you a BASH script, it'll take about 1 hour with testing and we'll make sure it works and formats output. I can do more recursively and precisely with Unix command line tools, but I do appreciate the GUI tools.

Get off it, you can use utilities, sure it's cool, but let folks use utilities but don't come on some technical high horse. If I needed to check permissions using a GUI, I might well, be somebody else. Learn a little about the Unix machine under this proprietary but well done version of XFCE and then come back.

To clean cookies and uninstall apps MacBooster works fine.

There's nothing to do with being on a "technical high horse." It's about knowing what is technically necessary and unnecessary with a Mac. Macs do not require the kind of "cleaning" that apps like MacBooster do, as has already been more than adequately stated here. Further, as for uninstalling apps, if an app actually needs uninstalling, you should only use the uninstaller provided by the developer of that app. No third-party generic uninstaller works better than that. And there's no need to compulsively "clean" cookies, but if you really want to, there are better ways to achieve that than using an app like MacBooster.

Yea, like all my apps have an uninstaller, and how would you check for soft links to data files, I'll give you a clue try ln -s, chances are your data files are soft linked, but as a Unix guy you would know that. You knew that /tmp and /proc disappear with a reboot, cleaning them out and the process table as well. I think I've already told you where user apps live. Some apps are just drag to trash and there may be some Apple thing that may drag the soft linked data files or not, but some of the utilities already do this.

As a 'Nix developer who has maintained both desktops and servers for a while, please tell me what is necessary and while you're at it tell me what's wrong with folks who want to use shortcuts, especially since those shortcuts seem to take into account 'Nix commands you clearly aren't versed in. Get real, OS X is the first honest to gosh, great Unix desktop, but it's still a Unix desktop and some people may know a bit more than you do about 'Nix OS's.

To clean cookies, which I do once a week or so, I'd have to explore my user directory more than I care to. So I let a utility take care of if for me. If I'm in a pinch and developing, I go to command line, it's how I was trained. There are many like me, Unix Professionals who see more than one way of doing things you're not doing at all, relying on "Apple Magic". You're not on a technical "high horse", you're not technical at all.

Charlie, do it your way, I'm sure you're happy, let other people do it their way and don't dump on things if you really have no clue of what they are doing.

Gym_Cop wrote:

I'll give you a clue

Yeah, I don't think so. Since you're determined to be belligerent, and since you don't actually seem to know as much as you claim to (since much of what you're saying makes no sense), there's not much point in continuing to discuss this with you.

And you've still said nothing to refute a developer's work (MacBooster). Nothing technical anyway, typical Mac user.

Gym_Cop wrote:

And you've still said nothing to refute a developer's work (MacBooster). Nothing technical anyway, typical Mac user.

Ah, another one who thinks he knows,

I realise this is an old thread but I thought it would be worth relating my experience this morning.

I got a notification that something called MacBooster2 "wants to make changes to this computer".

i have never knowingly installed MacBooster2, and no-one else has access to, let alone admin privileges, to my iMac. Naturally I denied access.

I looked for the app, found it in my apps folder, no evidence of an installer or image file which might have contained it. However the file creation date was "today, 12.41".

This is exactly the time at which I upgraded my Divx10 installation. The only explanation I can see is that MacBooster either piggybacked the DivX installer, or disguised itself as a legit DivX installer.

I found the install dmg hiding in /private/tmp

Such tactics lend the developer no credibility, but slapped wrists for me for taking my eye off the ball.

However I wonder how this could have happened. My security settings allow installation of apps from the Mac App store and identified developers. So is Iobit (who's name sounds suspiciously similar to Zeobit, frankly) considered a legitimate developer? If so, why do they need to sneak their software onto users machines in this manner?

I also never installed MacBooster, but found MacBooster 2 installed and running right after I updated to DivX 10.

Being highly highly suspicious I removed it immediately, but now I wonder what other changes it made to my work machine.

Where did you download DIVX from, a 3rd party (like cnet or similar) or from the vendor.

Vendor, which is why it was so surprising.

That's disturbing