Is MacKeeper Good or Bad?

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Is MacKeeper Good or Bad?

So I was on my Macbook, and I was downloading a game and it was asking strange questions so I deleted it. I then thought maybe I should clean out my mac to make sure I had nothing bad. But then I saw "MacKeeper" in my applications, and I opened it. It was scanning and supposedly found "799 bad items." I showed my sister and she said it was fake. So I closed it out and deleted MacKeeper. Also when I was in MacKeeper it supposedly had a real person chatting. I thought it was automated because they were typing SO fast. A sentence with like 30 words took about 5 seconds to type in the chat. I just wanted to ask if MacKeeper was good or bad. Antivirus or Virus?

MacKeeper Question

Posted on Mar 21, 2018 8:39 AM

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Answer 1

Limnos

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Mar 21, 2018 8:40 AM in response to kailovescarrie

Very bad.

http://www.reedcorner.net/beware-mackeeper/

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

ASC user tip on Mackeeper by Klaus1 - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3022

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Answer 2

Mar 21, 2018 8:43 AM in response to kailovescarrie

It is extremely bad. It is far worst then anything it claims it will protect you against. My suggestion is to uninstall it using the procedure provided by the developers. If you don't use that procedure, you will have bits and pieces of it through out your operating system.

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Answer 3

Mar 21, 2018 5:56 PM in response to Pastor56

Rather then attempting to highjack this thread, you really should start your own thread and explain exactly what problem you are having with your Mac there.

One suggestion I will give you now is to uninstall MacKeeper.

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