Remove Dr. Cleaner ASAP

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Remove Dr. Cleaner ASAP

Hello everyone,

As will all things free there is always a degree of what the hidden costs are, Dr. Cleaner it would appear has been cleaning your mac's and cherry picking the juicy private data in the process.

If this doesn't you bother feel free to click away, if it does there are some articles related to ithere >

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/10/trend_micro_apple_macos/

https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/09/additional-mac-app-store-apps-caught-stealing-and -uploading-browser-history/

My suggestion would be to delete that application asap as its now been blocked on the app store.

Help removing applications can be found here >

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25083?locale=en_GB

Thats it.

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 9:13 AM

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NorthLondonChris Author

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Oct 15, 2018 9:30 AM in response to babowa

I would agree with that normally however when you discover you have 350GB of system files, it sometimes needs further investigation and it would appear that Mac OS isn't so good at managing its tmp / system files / junk etc.

It also has an interesting problem with detecting how much drive space is in use as well as how to display it now.

For that thread see here > https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8584042

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macjack

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Oct 15, 2018 9:31 AM in response to NorthLondonChris

Yes and not just Dr Cleaner:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/09/mac-app-store-apps-are-ste aling-user-data/

In fact, even paid cleaning apps and anti-virus are not recommended for Mac OS. They can conflict with Mac's own built-in security. At best they will slow your Mac by using unnecessary resources and at worst will bork your entire system.

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babowa

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Oct 15, 2018 9:24 AM in response to NorthLondonChris

The general recommendation on these forums is to never install any type of "cleaning" products on a Mac because there is no need for them. So, that has been the info suggested to anyone who comes here to ask for several years.

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babowa

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Oct 15, 2018 2:28 PM in response to NorthLondonChris

That storage display is not known for its accuracy; FWIW, I never look at it. You get a much better idea by doing get info windows and looking at the results there.

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