Post by: Johanbgoot on February 14, 2011, 09:07:17 AM
Comments please.
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 14, 2011, 09:43:57 AM
Especially TODAY!!! 
As for MacKeeper, it appears to be a GUI for the basic behaviors in OS X. As you say, all the capabilities are already available in various other apps. Still, it may be more convenient to have them in a single place.
Not sure that's worth that rather unusual price. 
I will say they have a very pretty (and usable) web site. 
They appear to have throughly researched assistance in the US (legal as well as language). The one red flag I see is the "Anti-theft" capabilities. I'm not sure what info they are talking about that they will maintain and update once an hour. 
I'm sure it's my prejudices affecting my fears...OTOH... 
Perhaps reading some of the many reviews would be of help?
EDIT: The "anti-theft" function along with the "Geek on Demand" and the 3GB disk storage will be a yearly $39.95 charge. I can't justify that charge but it's optional, anyway. I guess it depends on how often your Mac is stolen, how often you call for support and how much (or little) you want to store in "the cloud."
Post by: Johanbgoot on February 14, 2011, 03:58:53 PM
Johan
Post by: jchuzi on February 14, 2011, 04:06:10 PM
QUOTE(Johanbgoot @ Feb 14 2011, 04:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
XABD and my wife would get on famously. XABD just saved me purchasing a licence, thanks.
Johan
Use the money to buy flowers for your wife. She'll like the Valentine's Day present a lot better than a software license. Johan
Remember that saying: "When a man gives flowers to a woman for no reason, there's a reason."
Post by: Highmac on March 22, 2011, 01:58:41 AM
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MacKeeper is making my Mac run dog slow. Be aware that every function that this piece of software performs is done under wine (its all done in Windows emulation mode). This is actually a windows application running under a Windows virtual machine. The Real-time protection is unusable on a laptop and its painful on a dual quad core desktop because any code that you run and (especially) anything that you download gets slowed down because it all has to go thru this emulation process. If you don’t believe me, try the demo and watch the 4 wine processes and the wineserver with the activity monitor when you turn on real-time protection. Try visiting a few web pages and watch your CPU usage go to 100% and stay there. I’m very unhappy with this product and I have not gotten an answer as to why everything is run in emulation mode, I can only assume that they are Windows programmers and that’s all they know.
Others claim it is planting hidden code on their machines.
Another link, to TUAW, where the comments provide far more useful info than the review
Rearrange the following words into a well-known phrase or saying: "Plague the avoid like."
Hope you bought your wife those flowers, Johan
Post by: Johanbgoot on March 22, 2011, 10:07:40 AM
Johan
Post by: Xairbusdriver on March 22, 2011, 12:10:03 PM
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our master bedroom that is now in the hands of the insurance company.
My condolences! I certainly wouldn't want to sleep in those "hands!"
Post by: LR827 on December 28, 2014, 11:41:46 AM
Lorraine
Post by: Highmac on December 28, 2014, 02:24:32 PM
Post by: jcarter on December 30, 2014, 06:56:41 AM
He got rid of it, and the troubles went away.
I dont remember what the troubles were, but MacKeeper does have some issues with some older Macs.
Also I heard that we dont need Onyx or to do any of the things we used to do with it, if we have the new OS nowadays.
I havent used it for about 4 years.