Q: Use of company to monitor MAC
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Sep 11, 2016 4:28 PMby Grant Bennet-Alder,No one can tell anything useful about your Macintosh computer from the outside. Most unsolicited "offers" to monitor your Mac or remove "detected" malware are proffered by criminals who know they have not detected anything wrong with your computer, and are simply lying to you to get your money, and if you are really gullible, your identity.
Everything needed to maintain your already well-protected Mac came in the box it shipped in. NO additional add-ons are needed except ONE -- an external drive to hold your Backup.
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Sep 11, 2016 4:52 PMby John Galt,If you are considering the services described and offered on the website you linked, don't.
Excerpted from Effective defenses against malware and other threats:
- Never install any product that claims to "clean up", "speed up", "optimize", "boost" or "accelerate" your Mac; to "wash" it, "tune" it, or to make it "shiny". Those claims are absurd.
- Such products are very aggressively marketed. They are all scams.
- They generally operate on the flawed premise that a Mac accumulates "junk" that needs to be routinely "cleaned out" for optimum performance.
- Trial versions of those programs are successful because they provide the instant gratification of greater free disk space.
- That increased space is the result of irreversible destruction of files, programs, or operating system components normally protected from inadvertent alteration or deletion. The eventual result will be unreliable operation, poor performance and random crashes that may not become evident for months or even years after their use, when updates to programs or OS X are eventually released.
- Memory "cleaners" that circumvent OS X's memory management algorithms work by purging inactive memory contents to mass storage, which can only result in degraded performance and accelerated hardware failure.
It is not clear to me what you want to do. If the above doesn't help please write back.
- Never install any product that claims to "clean up", "speed up", "optimize", "boost" or "accelerate" your Mac; to "wash" it, "tune" it, or to make it "shiny". Those claims are absurd.
