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08-28-2019, 7:59am | #1 | ||||||
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Mac Cleaner
I keep getting ads to download this but am never sure it is a real product
Anyone here use it |
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I would like to say that I'm using Sophos, however, a few weeks ago it started throwing up a nag screen. It is asking to me to give it permissions, but it's not giving the instructions to do so. Basically, it wants me to upgrade to the paid product.
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Real product, yes. Use it? HELL NO!
There is nothing in it that your Mac needs. |
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It kept hijacking my macs until I downloaded Malwarebytes (free) and got rid of it.
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Thanks.....I will stay away from it then
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I get a lot of ads & web page hijacks for Mac Keeper. Googling says it's a legit product, backed up by an "aggressive" marketing scheme.
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My college student daughter’s two year old Macbook was also hi-jacked by the insidious “MacKeeper” malware. I took it to a local computer repair place (downtown Plymouth, MI) and was well aware of problem invader. He installed a malware eliminator app (forgot the name of it but its logo is a stylized, corved “M”); and , it found a couple of other parasites. No charge! He said that the malware program license expires in a year and my choice whether whether to keep it. He probably gets a commission if I re-up after a year? He did not scan my credit card). Either way, the computer runs like brand new again.
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It’s so cute when Apple customers first encounter malware.
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08-28-2019, 10:49pm | #10 | ||||||
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Meh, my MACBOOK just died after 9yrs of service I'll buy another, I just can't get the 17" any longer like I had
I never had the need or desire to put Mac Cleaner on it |
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In a couple of weeks, Apple is expected to announce a new 16" MacBook Pro. Supposedly it will have the same footprint as the current 15" version. I too miss my 17" MBP. I suppose I could dig it out if I really needed it.
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mine is a 13" MacBook Pro....happy with it
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