Tens of thousands of people who bought MacKeeper have filed for refunds as part of a proposed class-action settlement against the application’s former developer. The number of refund requests has far ...

MacKeeper, a utility and security program for Apple computers, celebrated its fifth birthday in April. But its gift to U.S. consumers who bought the application may be a slice of a $2 million ...

I keep getting a popup saying ‘System Scan is Recommended: Click Start Scan to launch system diagnostics.’ But I don’t recognise the logo on the popup and I’m sure my Mac doesn’t need scanning. Is ...

If you click on the MacKeeper menu in the Mac’s menu bar you won’t find a Quit command, which might lead you to believe that it can’t be quit. Force-quitting doesn’t seem to work either. Disable ...

The original developers of much maligned Mac security software MacKeeper have agreed to a $2 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over deceptive claims and false advertisement, with part of ...

If you were tricked into buying MacKeeper, you may be able to get your money refunded. MacKeeper, for those unfamiliar, is Mac software that purports to optimize a Mac and keep it secure from viruses ...

Despite its checkered past, MacKeeper provides a decent level of protection and performance optimization features. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review ...

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MacKeeper gets a bad rap, but what's really behind the controversy? MacKeeper is a strange piece of software. There may be no other app as controversial in the Apple world. The application, which ...

Infamous software developer MacKeeper has demanded that four videos critical of its maligned tune-up utility suite be removed from the internet, threatening the teenager behind the videos with $60,000 ...

The makers of MacKeeper — a much-maligned software utility many consider to be little more than scareware that targets Mac users — have acknowledged a breach that exposed the usernames, passwords and ...

MacKeeper, the anti-virus software for Macs, accidentally exposed the details of over 13 million users, according to a researcher. The details included names, phone numbers, passwords, user names, and ...