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Offline Johanbgoot

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« on: February 14, 2011, 09:07:17 AM »
Does anyone know anything about MacKeeper?  I saw it on the internet this morning and tried the freebee but to continue to use it costs $38.95 for a single user. I use ClamXav to check any downloads, run Onyx every couple of months and installed Sophos.  My wife says it's overkill.
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« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2011, 09:43:57 AM »
Always listen to your wife!!! yes.gif Especially TODAY!!! eek2.gif

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. dntknw.gif Not sure that's worth that rather unusual price. wink.gif I will say they have a very pretty (and usable) web site. rofl.gif 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. Thinking.gif I'm sure it's my prejudices affecting my fears...OTOH... scram.gif

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."
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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2011, 03:58:53 PM »
XABD and my wife would get on famously.  XABD just saved me purchasing a licence, thanks.

Johan
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« Reply #3 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.  

Remember that saying:  "When a man gives flowers to a woman for no reason, there's a reason."   Devilish2.gif
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2011, 01:58:41 AM »
Reviving this thread after reading comments on another forum, responding to a switcher having problems with a new Mac. One complaint is a continually spinning beachball. One poster points out the user has MacKeeper and links to a glowing review on Apple Gazette; responses are not so much glowing as blazing with anger....

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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  rolleyes.gif

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Hope you bought your wife those flowers, Johan wink.gif
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2011, 10:07:40 AM »
Believe it or not my wife is not really into flowers.  She had taken me out for dinner friday and I cooked her one of her favourite meals sunday.  A pasta dish involving a spicy tomato/vegetable sauce and "hot" Italian sausages served over spaghettini.  Of course I baked homemade dinner rolls and served homemade banana bread for dessert.  The upstart was that we woke up monday the 14th to a leaking roof in our master bedroom that is now in the hands of the insurance company.

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« Reply #6 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!" scram.gif
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« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2014, 11:41:46 AM »
Just a thank-you for this string, old as it is, that answered my question before I asked it. I've been getting messages about MacKeeper but wouldn't buy or download it until I heard from TS. So thanks again!

Lorraine
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« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2014, 02:24:32 PM »
You're more than welcome, Lorraine. Do have  a happy Mackeeper-less New Year smile.gif
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« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2014, 06:56:41 AM »
My brother installed MacKeeper and had problems with it, last year.
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.

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