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gregfripp
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Nov 23, 2011, 05:44 AM
 
i am trying to deinstall mackeeper - i find it useless.
but i am left with a small blank screen headed 'uninstall mackeeper' that you can only get to go all screen only
how can i get RID of this pesky piece of 'software'?
all help much appreciated
greg
     
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Nov 23, 2011, 08:59 AM
 
Restart then uninstall again. Do you see any remnants of MacKeeper in the Applications folder?
     
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Nov 23, 2011, 09:05 AM
 
Don't use the MacKeeper uninstaller.
Try these steps.
     
gregfripp  (op)
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Nov 23, 2011, 10:29 AM
 
thank both of you for your much-appreciated help
allmost all mackeeper files are now no longer the, thank goodness
to other mac users
DONT load this package!
gref
     
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Nov 23, 2011, 11:40 AM
 
What is MacKeeper and why are people installing it in the first place?

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
     
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Nov 23, 2011, 12:01 PM
 
It's a system maintenance/anti-virus suite of highly-questionable value, the makers of which rely on fairly shady, spam-ish marketing to get you to install, including Windows-ish web pop-ups of the "Your computer may be infected" ilk.
     
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Nov 23, 2011, 12:04 PM
 
Ah interesting, thank you. Apple should pull the malware switch on it, it appears.

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Oct 4, 2012, 07:03 AM
 
Originally Posted by mordekaiser View Post
I've been using mackeeper for several months. and so far i haven't encountered any problems regarding mackeeper.
So much for MacKeeper employing spam tactics for advertising.

Get the **** out, and take your threatenware with you.
     
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Oct 4, 2012, 07:13 AM
 
I think I'll walk back in for a while and ban that person.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
     
   
 
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