Is Mackeeper Free And Safe

[Sharon Harris]

iwas surfing safari and suddenly my mac screen went black and froze then it came back on and on my top bar mackeeper was there. i didn't even install it! then i deleted it in library and applications also anything else i could find then mackeeper was gone.But i'm still watching closely to see if it comes back.?

I did a recent update On my MacBook air 3 days ago a pop-up called MacBook keeper said "clean up unnecessary files " and I downloaded it. I went to get some paperwork off my desktop and ALL of documents and files (hundreds) are gone! I was never able to do the backup to that external drive so I have no copies (except paper) of every download I had on my laptop. I don't know what to do!

There is a commercial product called MacKeeper, which is worthless junk but not a trojan as far as I know, and there is a trojan that sometimes also uses that name or a variation of it. If the OP was prompted by a website to install something called MacKeeper, it was probably the trojan. Even if it wasn't, he shouldn't install it.

1st: when you get the pop-ups, they will get worse over time. I heard from other people they even could'nt open their Safari anymore. The problem with mackeeper pop-ups is that they you can't view a website before you press some buttons of them (wich leeds to problems) and that they aren't pop-ups from the site you're viewing (so the site you're viewing don't get paid for it).

As a representative of Zeobit LLC - the developers of MacKeeper, I would like to persuade you it's safe indeed to download our app. It has nothing in common with malware - vice versa, it's one of the apps that can help you fight with MacDefender threat you can read about it in the article at CNet 'How to protect your Mac from recent malware' - -13727_7-20063683-263.html -

The pop-ups you may have seen are the part of advertizing campaign that is completely legit, in case you click them you'll be redirected to the page giving extra info about our app - the app isn't downloaded or installed.

Speaking about system slowdowns, it's not in the nature of MacKeeper to be the reason of them - and we give you an opportunity to make sure in it yourself - MacKeeper has 15 days full-functional trial so you'll be able to give a try to all its tools, clean your system, try the antivirus and undelete features and more. In case you will notice any slowdowns (while you have to notice the increasing of speed) you can easily remove MacKeeper as it has its own uninstaller so all the components of the app are removed in several clicks with no leftovers.

That might be your opinion but after having tested it, I stick by my original opinion of it saying that is worthless and possibly dangerous if the use isn't totally aware of everything that is is capable of doing.

Every known AV type software, and there are cases where they can be essential on your network or business, can only try to minimize and be optimized (run when system is idle, something Spotlight needs to laearn how to do).

So you registered today and made your first post ever in order to tell us that. Someone using the same name also registered with an anonymizing VPN service. Isn't that a strange coincidence, considering that the developer of the MacKeeper garbage promotes his product on fake review sites that hide his identity?

Is this app real or a scam? People here on Apple Support Communities think MacKeeper is a scam and they tell you that you must uninstall it now. MacKeeper displays a lot of distracting popups and notifications, and for doing almost anything requires you pay for the registered version.

I was viewing a legitimate car page to see new models, and a "Flash media" download appeared to view new car videos from an American car page. After I did so, the videos so play, but a MacKeeper and other scan your computer popups appeared. I've deleted them from from the Finder icon on my MacBook. But the MacKeeper stays on and continually pops up wanting to scan my MacBook, and even put a "eye" icon on top of screen tool bar. How do I unistall the MacKeeper? I always use the iTunes updates and security downloads. Thank you!

-herd mentality, ie repeat something often enough and people will think there is something to it, like 'repair permissions' used to be an often recommended cure for everything, though you don't hear that so much anymore.

In the future, never, ever believe any site that claims you need to download anything from them to use their site. Any such message is a lie, almost, but not quite 100% of the time. Legitimate messages will tell you to visit Adobe to get Flash. There are no legitimate messages of any kind that insist you download and install software from them.

Thanks Kurt! Thought it was a media flash player to make a new car teacher add run. Good advise going directly to Adobe site. Interesting that all that megabackup cloud and mackeeper was installed on my doc, but now uninstalled. I'll run your suggested MalwareBytes for Mac

3) The company's marketing tactics aren't just aggressive, they're heavily misleading, and outright fraudulent. The last being proven by the app's insistence of finding many "major" problems that needs to be fixed on a new Mac fresh out of the box.

4) The company selling this garbage has had two class action lawsuits brought against it. They lost both. Here's a note on one of them. In their favorite excuse, it's always the affiliates fault for all of the adware and other heavily pushed methods of getting users to buy it. Well, they pay the affiliates for the advertising. So who's fault is it?

I am going to jump in and say haw bad my experience was with Mackeeper. I bought it two days ago and one of their techs installed it. He spent a lot of time trying to convince me to upgrade me to a higher level of Mackeeper for an additional $100.00. IMHO if the software you are selling for 59.00 do not try and upgrade someone to a better software.

I believe that at the time of installation he opened me up to several viruses to convince me to upgrade. It ****** me off and I got my money back. They want to remove the virus but I would not let that company go into my computer again. I use Avast and there has never been a problem. I am going to report this to the FBI because this is illegal activity.

I removed this app - it installed on my machine without my prompting which made me extremely nervous. I did some research and I saw it may be allegedely associated to other foreign and possibly russian companies. So better to be safe than sorry in my book.

Many users will see references to an application called MacKeeper on various web sites and via pop-ups on their browser. Not only is it expensive for what it purports to do (freeware applications that do the same or more are readily available), it can sometimes install itself without the user realising it, and it can be very tricky to get rid of.

MacKeeper has been described by various sources as highly invasive malware* that can de-stablize your operating system, adding that it is unethically marketed, with a history of making false advertising claims, by a company called Zeobit and a rip-off.

until it was purchased recently (May 2012) by Symantic (makers of Norton anti-virus which does not work well with Apple OS X). Even after having tinkered with it, iAntivirus still fails to do the job properly and cannot be recommended.

There are no viruses that can affect Apple OS X and there is therefore no reason to run anti-virus software on a Mac, but a Mac, like all computers, can transmit viruses and malware to other users particularly those running Windows. Note, however, that Trojans are another matter and can represent a genuine threat, an example of which was the recent 'Flashback Trojan' which you can read more about here:

Although I have not actually tested MacKeeper myself (yet!), I have spoken to someone who has run extensive tests on it and who found that its "cleaning" tool completely trashed his test system. That is in addition to the numerous user reports that Phil Stokes has collected to the same effect. It's dangerous, and should not be used!

Again, it's more than "unsophisticated" marketing. On the contrary, it's highly sophisticated, but completely unethical, marketing! Let me give some examples. First, the developers bought the clamxav.org domain, which is similar to a competing product's site (clamxav.com). On that site, they put a "review" of ClamXav with a download button that redirected to the MacKeeper site. They eventually changed it after getting really bad press, and obfuscated their ownership of the clamxav.org domain. They have done similar things with other domains.

Second, they have been known to offer financial rewards to people who were willing to go post good reviews online. This is not hearsay, I've seen the actual e-mail that they sent to their customers. After they made this offer, both MacUpdate and CNet were flooded, within a 48 hour period, with glowing reviews for MacKeeper, taking it from one or two stars on both sites to near 5 stars within that 2 day interval. (The owner of MacUpdate, who also receives a lot of advertising money from MacKeeper ads, would not listen to multiple people's concerns that these reviews were fraudulent, despite the obviously fishy clustering of hundreds of 5-star reviews in such a short time period.)

Third, they pay reviewers for positive reviews. After I posted an article on my own site explaining much of this and warning people away from MacKeeper, they approached me and offered me a job as a consultant, telling me to name my fee, and also asked me to write a new review.

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