Unless you perform all of these steps, you'll have remnants of Zeobit's MacKeeper app. Select and Delete all results (except for those already in the Trash). To Completely Uninstall and Remove Zeobit's MacKeeper Reinstalled my OS and all of the software updates and finally, after a search and destroy mission for anything with derivatives of, I am back to a faster and cooler running computer.īurn in Dante's Inferno forever MacKeeper! I've spent two days trying to find out how to remove it and get things back to a pre-MacKeeper state. Went to an Authorized Mac Service provider and *they* were not able to trash the program, because it infiltrates and imbeds itself in so many places. And then funny things began happening to my OS. Safari started crashing and then Firefox was not responding. "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" or "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."Īfter the offer was clicked on, (MacKeeper was never purchased or activated) my laptop (only 6 months old) began running slower and slower, and hotter and hotter. If you (or someone using your computer) so much as clicks on an offer for MacKeeper, you are entering the gates of computer ****. If anyone is wondering - avoid this software! As with most buggy software it looks like a patchwork quilt with a lot of loose ends. If they do not get the problems solved tomorrow (assuming they call while I am home) then this software is in the trash! Many have posted on their forum uninstall as they do not provide a button, instructions on the web and moving to the trash doesn't do it by itself. Now with MacKeeper I found a software that is not ready for release with inadequate and undertrained support staff. I thought I had left buggy software behind. Then I was introduced to an iMac and I love them. I never owned a computer at home as I didn't want to work on one after hours. Overall Impression of this software: I worked in a corporate IT department developing (PCs and client server - no MFs) configuring, installing and training for many years before retiring. So that causes me to wonder if it really is doing a very good job at all, flashy displays not withstanding Once it took three scans to rid everything (on the fourth time it showed clean. This came as a surprise but I ran SCAN (file clean-up feature) a second time and it immediately found additional files. SCAN Doesn't clean everything first pass. I guess once is ok, but when I choose what to select, my Time Machine Volume shows up at the same level as my iMac HD and I do not select it. Problem with Time Machine and Anti-Virus Scan: One really nasty problem has been that when I run Anti-Virus and request only my iMAC hard drive it goes ahead and scans Time Machine as well. There was no option for requesting time of day and I am not going to wait around all day like waiting for a plumber or electrician, so I hope they call while I am home. I've logged a request for a support call and expect them tomorrow if they answer as promised. Problem with Scheduled Anti-Virus: I've had this product for about two months and worked with CHAT support a number of times to try and get the scheduler to work. All users should be cautioned to be careful whenever using software that offers to clean your Mac. OTOH, the legit MacKeeper has been known to do permanent damage to the Mac OS in the process of "helping to clean it up," so your last sentence could have some merit. I have observed a web page several weeks ago which used the MacKeeper 911 artwork in an attempt to convince people to download the MacDefender Trojan, but that's it so far. There could well be a version of MacDefender masquerading as MacKeeper out there, but I track this very closely and nobody has yet submitted such a package to the AV community for evaluation (I just checked again), so I doubt that is true, either. That's not true, there is a legitimate commercial software package available from as well as from Apple.
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