After I posted an article on my own site explaining much of this and warning people away from MacKeeper, they approached me and offered me a job as a consultant, telling me to name my fee, and also asked me to write a new review.Īll these behaviors, and more, go together to paint a picture of completely unscrupulous developers who probably should not be trusted with your credit card number. Third, they pay reviewers for positive reviews.
(The owner of MacUpdate, who also receives a lot of advertising money from MacKeeper ads, would not listen to multiple people's concerns that these reviews were fraudulent, despite the obviously fishy clustering of hundreds of 5-star reviews in such a short time period.) After they made this offer, both MacUpdate and C|Net were flooded, within a 48 hour period, with glowing reviews for MacKeeper, taking it from one or two stars on both sites to near 5 stars within that 2 day interval. This is not hearsay, I've seen the actual e-mail that they sent to their customers. Second, they have been known to offer financial rewards to people who were willing to go post good reviews online. They have done similar things with other domains. They eventually changed it after getting really bad press, and obfuscated their ownership of the domain.
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On that site, they put a "review" of ClamXav with a download button that redirected to the MacKeeper site. First, the developers bought the domain, which is similar to a competing product's site (). On the contrary, it's highly sophisticated, but completely unethical, marketing! Let me give some examples. unsophisticated marketing by the developers made it smell suspicious.Īgain, it's more than "unsophisticated" marketing. That is in addition to the numerous user reports that Phil Stokes has collected to the same effect. (Sounds like you've been listening to etresoft too much!)Īlthough I have not actually tested MacKeeper myself (yet!), I have spoken to someone who has run extensive tests on it and who found that its "cleaning" tool completely trashed his test system. There's nothing to herd mentality about why you should avoid MacKeeper.
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