MacKeeper Is 911 For Your Mac [Deals] | Cult of Mac

Thomas Meldgaard · May 2012

What a shame to see this "product" advertised on a site I normally consider serious. I reckon everybody can be bought.

Michael · May 2012

Lots of hate. So many people advertise for this app. Shit or not IDK I never used it, but Mac Rumors has advertised for these guys, so has MacUpdate, almost all the sites I know. They need to make money some how. Just don't buy the software, don't knock the site. These guys have some funny articles. People are such cry babies god.

lkahney · May 2012

Leander here.

Googling around it's obvious that MacKeeper is VERY unpopular with a bunch of people, but it is definitely NOT a virus/Trojan.

In fact, it has earned a bunch of very favorable reviews. Macworld magazine calls it a gem (http://www.macworld.com/article/1151454/mackeeper.html)

TUAW gives it a favorable review: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/06/14/keep-your-mac-tidy-with-mackeeper/

Here's Dave Hamilton of Backbeat Media talking it up at Macworld Expo: http://mackeeper.zeobit.com/media_room/expert_reviews/dave_hamilton

In fact, the company was a major sponsor of Macworld expo. There's no way Macworld is going to let a bunch of virus/Trojan hackers sponsor its expo.

The company is very aggressive with its marketing, and it maybe the software is not the easiest thing to uninstall, but as far as I know, it's a legit piece of software from a legit company.

Tell me if i'm wrong. Don't just a assert it -- show me some evidence. If it's not legit, of course we'll pull it down.

lkahney · May 2012

FYI -- Apple sells a lite version of MacKeeper called 911 Bundle through the Mac App Store, which is vetted:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/911-bundle/id417710895?mt=12

Zeobit has obviously earned some notoriety for its marketing. It's very aggressive and runs an affiliate program that appears to invite abuse. But from what I'm seeing, the profesional editorial reviews are universally positive.

To reiterate: We'll pull this deal in a second if we find out it is harmful to users' computers or a scam. It's obviously controversial, so perhaps we should have steered clear in the first place. Lesson learned.

Aybara · May 2012

FYI -- Apple sells a lite version of MacKeeper called 911 Bundle through the Mac App Store, which is vetted:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/911-bundle/id417710895?mt=12

Zeobit has obviously earned some notoriety for its marketing. It's very aggressive and runs an affiliate program that appears to invite abuse. But from what I'm seeing, the profesional editorial reviews are universally positive.
To reiterate: We'll pull this deal in a second if we find out it is harmful to users' computers or a scam. It's obviously controversial, so perhaps we should have steered clear in the first place. Lesson learned.

Yeah, called 911 Bundle so they didn't have to call it MacKeeper which would've probably kept it OUT of the App Store.

Anything that you have to go in and delete .plists and various other orphans the program hides to uninstall, is not something that should be 'promoted'.

Zeobit has been promising a true uninstaller for this program for quite some time, yet they never QUITE get it released.

Also, most of those reviews you cite are from 2010. Notice how none of them have touched it since?

Shaun Thomas · May 2012

IF you want to give your mac everything that's bad on a pc then go ahead and install this vile rubbish!

gremista · May 2012

i find this very interesting:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3036

Christopher Berg · May 2012

Never experience a known problem with it installed but after reading these comments and doing some research I immediately got rid of all files

Jerry Siano · May 2012

I can't believe you are advocating for this SCAM! Every single macintosh that I have seen with Mackeeper on it runs like junk! It will delete files that it claims are unused, but it will end up being your iPhoto Library and once I finally delete it from the computer, it runs like it's out of the box new. Not to mention, Mackeeper installs hidden files in your system that you have to find before you can actually put the App in your trash. Sounds a lot like PC Virus protection to me. DO NOT BUY or TRY MACKEEPER!!! It will ruin your day and probably mine...

jackpresley · May 2012

Thanks for replying Leander.

Maybe it's not a virus/trojan but it is a really bad piece of software that in my experience does the opposite to what it's supposed to. Are there any recent favorable reviews by the way? The one you lin are either 2010 or early 2011.

juxtaposer · May 2012

I bought MacKeeper through you and it will not activate. Zerobit says they have no record of my purchase and you need to fix the problem

Gareth Edwards · May 2012

You know, I haven't posted on CoM since they started cross posting articles with CoA - A mac fan site littering their articles with Android® posts was enough to put them on my shit list. I do pop in now and again however and WHOA!, what do I see today - I see CoM pushing this crud at viewers.

SHAME ON YOU CoM. Looks like I was right about the direction this site had taken some months ago. It's a real shame. I like the articles and most of the writing but this kind of piss poor shilling takes the biscuit.

LOOK AT WHAT YOUR POSTERS / READERS / REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS ARE SAYING!!!! FFS!!!! Have the decency to treat your readers with a bit more respect. We're mac users, NOT PC USERS, we don't want crap like this on out machines, never have done and with any luck never will do. Pushing this rancid stuff only increases the chance that people who are poorly educated might actually put this stuff on their machines. Very poor CoM, very poor.

FredHandl · July 2012

Are you serious? Like, in ... really serious?

Looks like you sold out.

Mikey Garcia · August 2012

Really disappointing CoM... I used to refer people to this site, but I cannot do that in good conscience anymore. Not only do you allow them to advertise on your site, but you have even defended this intrusive, unhelpful software... You all know enough, to know what this is. STOP PROMOTING IT! You cannot possibly be that greedy...

Terry Lambert · October 2012

After I buy the damn thing, why do you keep advertising to ME? Are you just too stupid to set a cookie? Or are you just incompetent programmers incapable of using the machine UUID to decide not to do a captive "let's force this person to dismiss the dialog because we can't be bothered to learn JavaScript"??

ajay67 · December 2012

Real Mac Users from all over the world have been lured in by supposedly expert sites and reviewers like yourselves to try this awful software. You're right, it's not a virus or a trojan - it's far worse than these easy to rectify computer threats. Mackeeper totally destroyed my Mac's operational integrity and was almost impossible to remove completely.

In future, before you "review" a product please take a break from pandering to your sponsors wishes ( I'm being polite ) and actually test the software for yourself. There will be many Mac users who trust your reviews. I for one have lost all faith in com's legitimacy and credibility.

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