MacKeeper Claim for reimbursement Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Posted on 08/10/2015 9:40:35 PM PDT by Swordmaker
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
That’s like $2.58 each. Woah!
Those pop-ups were so over the top I never gave them a second thought.
I thought they were just a bit too obvious a scam to take seriously.
Surprises me that half a million people fell for those ads.
What I don’t comprehend is.................why would anyone buy security software for an Apple product, I mean we are told all the time that it’s bulletproof. I don’t mean to be snarky..............okay, maybe a little.
Some of the most annoying aggressive popups on the internet.
They deserve to be sued hard and hurtfully. Obvious fearmongering.
MacKeeper was targeted toward ex-Windows users and played on their Windows experiences and fears. It sold things like "Defragging" the Mac drives, "Optimizing" the file structure, etc., and other utilities that are already built into the Mac OS and are done automatically every time you save or install a new app for the first two, and are for the all of the rest that MacKeeper promised to do for them, which they sold by "ScareWare" are taken care of by OS X as part of its built in housekeeping merely by leaving your Mac turned on overnight. It really wasn't a good anti-virus either. . .
it sold itself by aggressive scareware pop-up ads claiming it had found PROBLEMS on the "Mark's Mac" and hinted at un-deleted files and problems akin to what a Windows' user would associate with a "Registry problem." Of course, the OS X Mac has no such animal as a "Registry" to have problems. But it scared them into thinking they had to buy it to "clean up their Mac" like they used to have to have utilities to clean up their Windows PCs.
“Pay to the order of Iron Balls McGinty....One Dollar and Nine Cents.”
I didn't think you were. . . It's a serious question. . . with a legitimate answer. MacKeeper was actually Malware, itself. It used social engineering to get itself on users computers by scaring them. It also offered "free" scans and once it was on your computer, it would then CHARGE you to fix what it claimed it found. . . and it always would find something. Such as it would recommend turning off Apple's Gatekeeper, saying MacKeeper could do a far better job of what Gatekeeper did. Not true. . . because by turning Gatekeeper off, everything could be downloaded onto the Mac. . . so that MacKeeper could poorly check it with an incomplete A/V library. . . or it would replace Apple's solid and safe UNIX utilities with its poor versions that were not automatic nor as complete.
Getting it out of your system was a real pain. . .
thanks for a straightforward non defensive answer, I being a XP user am of course aware of the “security” scams out there, just didn’t see Apple users getting suckered.
No system is bullet proof and only a fool would think so. The system itself is less susceptible. Biggest cause of most breaches is operator infection.
big money, lol
Coming from a long time lurker, good post.
I haven’t bought into the whole mac anti malware scams are like this. The only third party “tune up” app I use for Mac is Ccleaner.
It sure looks like they modeled their mascot after eve from walle. Albeit on large amounts of roids.
These people keep right on advertising.
It ran ...overnight...unattended....and turned my mac OFF all by itself.
I cant remember which app that tracks system activity..... recorded the event...
Id sue but I killed mac[-keeper...and all is well.
. . . which is precisely why I’m grateful to Swordmaker for pinging out calm, reasonable, well-informed responses to scams like MacKeeper. I once fell victim (albeit not painfully) to a social engineering attack on my PC. Why did I sucker for it? Because I was worried sick about viruses. Why didn’t I just run an antivirus program? I tried. It was such insufferable bloatware - and I was perforce using dialup at the time - that it was simply unworkable.Understanding that OS X is Unix, and that Unix, as a multitasking multiuser OS was inherently far more sophisticated and robust than DOS, or for that matter any single-user OS, I leapt at the chance to buy a G4 iMac, and I had confidence in it.
But although Jim Robinson would absolutely never intentionally host malware of any sort, the envy (or whatever you call it) of certain PC users who were suffering with the inherently vulnerable DOS/Windows which had the imprimatur of
IBM as cover for its inadequacy has resulted in FUD being posted on the Internet and picked up by FR posters. The result has been de facto social engineering attacks having the effect of suggesting that I should sucker for something like MacKeeper. Swordmaker has been a voice of sanity reassuring me that my instincts were right about resisting the Trojan Horse threat in the only possible way - by ignoring it. I’m really glad Swordmaker enjoys helping us.
Have you contributed to FR this quarter?
Yes, they most certainly do. . . and I saw one of their pop-up, scareware ads on a computer one of my friends was using just the other day . . . so this lost class action lawsuit has not dissuaded them in any way from their criminal ways. They're just chalking it up to a cost of doing business.
I sure hope this MacKeeper garbage hasn’t been attempted for the iphone or ipod touch yet.
A, uh, friend of mine tells me that mackeeper per even does popunder ads at porn sites.
I owe you a beer for your warnings about that dreck. It’s because of your warnings on FR that I steered way away from that blasted spam.
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