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Mac Keeper

Roxy.music

Roxy.music

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I just saw Mac keeper being addvertised on yahoo.I can,t beleave it is still going.:rolleyes:Or has it improved?
Thry were comparing it to Cleanmymacx there is no contest there CleanMyMacX is a exalant product as far as i am concerned.:)
MackEEPER were saying it is indorced by Apple?
Does anyone use it on here?
 
For a fun time: Install MacKeeper.
Now, scan your system with Malwarebytes.
Notice how Malwarebytes reports that as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).
And Malwarebytes will remove that for you.

Better yet, continue as you were, without wondering if MacKeeper is, somehow, a good choice for anything.
Users STILL will find it occasionally, clinging desperately to some other app that you might download somewhere.
Is MacKeeper a better app after all these years? Don't know. Don't care. If Malwarebytes is going to point it out, every time I scan a customer's Mac, then I suggest that's a reasonable app to avoid, if possible.
 
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I’ve also used Clean-My-Mac for years. It works great for me. I don’t know what the negative statements are really based on. Seems more unsubstantiated rumors than real users.
 
jazz1 said:
I’ve also used Clean-My-Mac for years. It works great for me. I don’t know what the negative statements are really based on. Seems more unsubstantiated rumors than real users.
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I knew when i put the subject on here there would be people saying it was a virus Cleanmymacx that is.I am with you JAZZ. No problems here with it.:)As i asked the question some years back about Cleanmymac people were saying it was a virus.
 
chscag said:
A search on this forum and others will show it's not rumors. Besides, why pay for an app when there are free ones that will do the same thing? "OnyX" for example.
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The thing with that is you have to have some knowledge other wise you could delete stuff that you should not have done.
 
DeltaMac said:
For a fun time: Install MacKeeper.
Now, scan your system with Malwarebytes.
Notice how Malwarebytes reports that as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).
And Malwarebytes will remove that for you.

Better yet, continue as you were, without wondering if MacKeeper is, somehow, a good choice for anything.
Users STILL will find it occasionally, clinging desperately to some other app that you might download somewhere.
Is MacKeeper a better app after all these years? Don't know. Don't care. If Malwarebytes is going to point it out, every time I scan a customer's Mac, then I suggest that's a reasonable app to avoid, if possible.
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Since i started using a Mac i have only read stuff about Mackeeper being a virus and that it is a hell of a job to get it off the Mac once it is on there.I can,t believe
BasicGreatGuy said:
Junk software that can do more damage than good.
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There are lots of videos like this on utube.
 
Of course, MacKeeper is not literally a virus. Some say it's as bad as a virus. Are they all created equal?
Let's see; Influenza vs. COVID-19... Oh wait, don't go there! ;)
 
May I ask a simple and perhaps stupid question: What is wrong with Mac Keeper? Isn't CleanMyMac X on the Mac AppStore?
 
MacKeeper is perhaps most known for their possibly-deceptive marketing tactics.

MacKeeper - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

CleanMyMac X is certainly on Apple's AppStore.
The two products are not from the same company. In fact, the company that owns MacKeeper sued the company that owns CleanMyMac X a few years ago, claiming that MacPaw/CleanMyMac employees were publicly defaming Kromtech (the company that currently owns MacKeeper.)

What is wrong with MacKeeper, you may ask? Don't know. Don't care.
All I do know is that if you run Malwarebytes on a Mac that has MacKeeper installed, Malwarebytes will point to it as a PUP.
I most recently saw that only last month after a scan on a customer's machine. It was loaded with dozens of malware items, mostly adware of various kinds, and MacKeeper was also one of those listed.
 
laurensvo92 said:
May I ask a simple and perhaps stupid question: What is wrong with Mac Keeper? Isn't CleanMyMac X on the Mac AppStore?
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Whats right with Mackeeper if you watched the video i put on here you will find out. CleanMymac x is on the App store like you say i and a lot of other people use it and think it is good like me. :)
 
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Scott Baret said:
Avoid MacKeeper at all costs. Your Mac works fine without a cleaner and a lot of preventative maintenance is easier on your own.
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I people should avoid Mackeeper, i clicked on it when it was on my yahoo mails at the top by accident i checked with my Cleanmymacx to see if there was any malware none on there :)
i just can,t believe Mackeeper is still going:rolleyes:
 
I'm glad to see I'm just adding to the choir, but, MacKeeper is quite literally malware. Stay far away.


DeltaMac said:
For a fun time: Install MacKeeper.
Now, scan your system with Malwarebytes.
Notice how Malwarebytes reports that as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program).
And Malwarebytes will remove that for you.
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I'm pretty sure you're joking, but please don't literally do this. I'm sure Malwarebytes does a pretty good job of cleaning up, but it's not worth taking the risk of installing MacKeeper in the first place. If you know what you're doing and want to investigate, use a Virtual Machine or a separate Mac with nothing else on it.
 
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When I got my new Mac in 2016 Mackeeper downloaded. I swear I do not know how, but it did. The pop ups and junk were endless! i finally had to do a search on how to remove it. It took several attempts to get it all off. I have never heard anything good about this product.

This makes me reluctant to use Clean My Mac, but I have heard some positive things about it. I am not short on space, but in the next two years or so I may be upgrading a new Mac. It would be nice to have something that would remove a lot of stuff I don't need before I migrate from one system to another. In 2016 I did a clean install, but it royally screwed up my Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop lease and that took me two days of tech suport and giving Adobe charge of my screen to fix. I would prefer avoiding that scenario. Recommendations?
 
Roxy.music said:
I have been using CleanMyMacX for over 3 years it is all fine with me. :)
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One starts and then every dev company wants FULL DISK ACCESS ... OF COURSE.

The Login item always enables itself even though I disabled it.
I also disabled the Menu item.

I deactiveated scan DMG images because I see mounted volumes in Disk Utility even
though the images is not even mounted in the Finder and I have trouble to unmount
them in Disk Utility.

Some USB sticks are showing the same issue when CleanMyMac X health monitor is
operating in the background and scanning for malware. Eject here and then fails.



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BLACK BARON
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