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Is MacKeeper worth buying?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1368600" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>There's cheaper and even free software that do that exact same thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>From a marketing standpoint, they are slimy. They have dozens of fake websites that are the internet's equivalent of the infomercial that claim to do "reviews" of the software comparing it to other software. They have posted fakes inquiries into the product in these very forums, which were rapidly followed by faked praise for it. They have a full-time <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=mackeeper+evangelist+sana+paul" target="_blank">"evangelist"</a> who haunts sites like MacUpdate and actively rebuts and combats anything negative about the software.</p><p></p><p>Speaking of negativity… the software has caused issues for quite a few people here. The AV component alone is a resource hog. It's not even Mac-native… it's Windows code running under WINE.</p><p></p><p>Want alternatives? Depends on what you want to do. For occasional maintenance and cleaning, Onyx is used and recommended by most everyone here. IceClean is an alternative that is very good in its own right. The only tool of this class that I recommend spending money on is <a href="http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerToolSys2.html" target="_blank">TinkerTool System</a> (not to be confused with plain old TinkerTool). It's an outstanding utility that excels at explaining the various tasks it offers, and wraps up in one package many maintenance and cleaning modules that you'd need 3 or 4 others to get all together otherwise. A couple of its tools are best in class, IMO. It's Uninstallation Assistant alone is the only "uninstaller" I know of that will check for helper files in all user accounts, not just the one you are using it in. I don't really like the UI very much… Onyx is superior in that regard. But then when it comes to beauty, CleanMyMac is utterly gorgeous, but avoid that… many people have had issues with it, and I consider that software to be rather misleading in what it does as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1368600, member: 38864"] There's cheaper and even free software that do that exact same thing. From a marketing standpoint, they are slimy. They have dozens of fake websites that are the internet's equivalent of the infomercial that claim to do "reviews" of the software comparing it to other software. They have posted fakes inquiries into the product in these very forums, which were rapidly followed by faked praise for it. They have a full-time [URL="http://www.google.com/search?q=mackeeper+evangelist+sana+paul"]"evangelist"[/URL] who haunts sites like MacUpdate and actively rebuts and combats anything negative about the software. Speaking of negativity… the software has caused issues for quite a few people here. The AV component alone is a resource hog. It's not even Mac-native… it's Windows code running under WINE. Want alternatives? Depends on what you want to do. For occasional maintenance and cleaning, Onyx is used and recommended by most everyone here. IceClean is an alternative that is very good in its own right. The only tool of this class that I recommend spending money on is [URL="http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerToolSys2.html"]TinkerTool System[/URL] (not to be confused with plain old TinkerTool). It's an outstanding utility that excels at explaining the various tasks it offers, and wraps up in one package many maintenance and cleaning modules that you'd need 3 or 4 others to get all together otherwise. A couple of its tools are best in class, IMO. It's Uninstallation Assistant alone is the only "uninstaller" I know of that will check for helper files in all user accounts, not just the one you are using it in. I don't really like the UI very much… Onyx is superior in that regard. But then when it comes to beauty, CleanMyMac is utterly gorgeous, but avoid that… many people have had issues with it, and I consider that software to be rather misleading in what it does as well. [/QUOTE]
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