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Mackeeper legitimate software#

So bluntly: Is MacKeeper software a scam? Or is it just bad and questionable software with an aggressive marketing campaign behind it and not much else?įirstly, let's define "scam": my dictionary says a dishonest scheme, while my thesaurus suggests confidence trick which "…exploits characteristics of the human psyche, such as credulity, naïveté…" The lawsuit was settled in 2015 for US $2 million without any admission of guilt by the company.”

MacKeeper faced a class-action lawsuit because the company allegedly deceived users into paying for unneeded fixes. It is heavily promoted through aggressive advertising and affiliate marketing. It has been accused of not performing as advertised and being difficult to fully uninstall. “MacKeeper is software distributed by Kromtech Alliance and marketed as a way to secure, clean, protect and optimize a computer operating system. The Wikipedia entry for it doesn’t praise it, but it doesn’t seem to be much more than bad software and not much else:

“You don't need this software, avoid it.”.

Run MalwareBytes on your Mac and it will remove MacKeeper.” But is MacKeeper software itself actually a scam? Pretty much all of the answers on that page imply in one way or another that MacKeeper software is part of a scam scheme and here are choice bits: The long and short of it is, the original poster recently purchased a copy of MacKeeper and was then contacted by phone by someone claiming to be a part of the MacKeeper team requesting access to the original poster’s computer system: Desktop, files, etc… This question is based on this question recently asked on Ask Different.