MacKeeper yes/no

[surfs-up]

A few years ago, maybe 4 years ago, I bought a copy of MacKeeper and installed it on several of my iMacs and MacBook Pros. I was worried at the amount of data it was deleting......and then I read numerous posts on the web that said MacKeeper was destructive. So I deleted it.

I see it is still available for download, and I got to thinking perhaps I deleted my copies of MacKeeper unnecessarily. Do any of you have experience with MacKeeper ? good or bad ? Is it as bad as posts suggest on the web ?

 

[itareanlnotani]

Its unnecessary crap. Don't install it.

 

[creeper]

Skip it. I use Onyx

 

[GreGorGy]

Stay far away. Malware at best.

 

[bwana]

Stay far away. Malware at best.

Congrats on imparting your pearls of wisdom on MyBB for a decade and a day! Now get a life

 

[GreGorGy]

Congrats on imparting your pearls of wisdom on MyBB for a decade and a day! Now get a life

Hey wow - you're right!

Sheesh - now I feel old. 10 years! That's a thousand posts a year - pretty conservative...

 

[Grant]

hell no !

 

[SauRoNZA]

You don't need any of this ***.

Not Mackeeper and not Onyx.

OSX has built-in maintenance scripts that run at regular intervals or upon restarts and there's no need for any of the third party nonsense. In fact Onyx does nothing but run those very same built-in scripts when you ask it to do so.

Between Disk Utility and just leaving your Mac to do what it needs to do, there should be no need to ever intervene.

And take this from someone who has run a Vanilla Macbook for a 116 days and only the shutting it down to install an OS update that I needed to test before rolling out.

 

[soliton]

Don't suggest to install it, google it on apple forum you shall see many discussions regarding that.