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Apr 3, 2014 10:46 PM in response to docjim55by Barry Hemphill,Read this and draw your own conclusions:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23930055#23930055
The experienced posters opinion of it is, to quote, snake oil. I would never use something like that on a Mac.
Barry
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Sep 24, 2016 3:58 PM in response to docjim55by pops289,MacBooster may be worse than snake oil.
My wife's Windows machine got locked up (chrome web browser) with a pop-up telling her she had to call some toll-free number (855-396-4925) or risk losing her credit cards, bank accounts, and other personal information. I Googled the phone number, and instead of getting the usual suspects (e.g. whitepages.com), all I got were links to web sites promoting MacBooster for the Mac, and SpyHunter for Windows. It looks like they manipulated the Google search engine to drive traffic to their website in order to catch the wary folks who don't immediately call the number and give the scammers control of their computer.
Why am I convinced the web sites are from the scammers? Because they all contain terrible English, and because NONE of the web sites that I would normally get when searching on a phone number show up in the search. All the web sites that come up in the phone number search just promote "virus removal tools" that probably are themselves viruses, so my guess is that MacBooster is not something you would want on your computer.
(I alt-tabbed out of chrome, killed chrome on her computer, then watched to see if the pop-up returned. So far it hasn't, and I haven't seen anything in the task list that looks suspicious (yet).)