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In response to an ad for MacKeeper, I logged into their site, but did not download the s/w. Since then I have had problems with my Mac. Has anyone else had this experience?
Here is more info: I accessed the site and read quite a bit on it. Something did not feel right, so I left it and looked for reviews. I looked at the reviews I found first, and they also seemed peculiar -- for example, they had the same look and feel as the MAcKeeper site, including the type of, and phrasing of, the praise they gave the app.
Then I watched the MacWorld presentation about MacKeeper and read the comments shown below the presentation video, including some that said the application was devious and some that implied it was dangerous. This seemed peculiar.
Then I began to have problems -- for example, my Word interface lost all of its scrollbars and also the info at the bottom of the page -- page number, etc. Similarly, Firefox began to display windows and tabs differently and, starting a day or two ago, the Window list at the top of the screen no longer showed all of the windows or tabs that are open. At this point it shows only the current tab.
Do you think this is just coincidence, or could the MacKeeper site have allowed infiltration to my machine?
I live where Mac service is difficult to get. Today I decided to look again at the comments on the MacWorld presentation. Those comments are now not on the page. I also looked for more reviews of the app, and found several that explicitly said the app was destructive, including one that suggested the destructiveness was deliberate. In addition to those, I found "reviews" that were ads, including one that seemed to start a download. I closed it immediately without studying it, so perhaps it was only some sort of video.
What do you think?
Here is more info: I accessed the site and read quite a bit on it. Something did not feel right, so I left it and looked for reviews. I looked at the reviews I found first, and they also seemed peculiar -- for example, they had the same look and feel as the MAcKeeper site, including the type of, and phrasing of, the praise they gave the app.
Then I watched the MacWorld presentation about MacKeeper and read the comments shown below the presentation video, including some that said the application was devious and some that implied it was dangerous. This seemed peculiar.
Then I began to have problems -- for example, my Word interface lost all of its scrollbars and also the info at the bottom of the page -- page number, etc. Similarly, Firefox began to display windows and tabs differently and, starting a day or two ago, the Window list at the top of the screen no longer showed all of the windows or tabs that are open. At this point it shows only the current tab.
Do you think this is just coincidence, or could the MacKeeper site have allowed infiltration to my machine?
I live where Mac service is difficult to get. Today I decided to look again at the comments on the MacWorld presentation. Those comments are now not on the page. I also looked for more reviews of the app, and found several that explicitly said the app was destructive, including one that suggested the destructiveness was deliberate. In addition to those, I found "reviews" that were ads, including one that seemed to start a download. I closed it immediately without studying it, so perhaps it was only some sort of video.
What do you think?