If you’ve heard of MacKeeper, you may have seen phrases such as these: “Avoid MacKeeper like the plague.” “Invasive malware.” “Get rid of it ASAP.” As MacKeeper’s chief marketing officer, it pains me ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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 ...

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’ve been using Apple Macs for around 25 years now. For much of that time, the market share of Macs was minuscule. However, times have changed and the macOS platform has boomed in recent years and has ...

The original developers behind the controversial Mac cleaning/scam software MacKeeper at ZeoBIT have entered into a settlement with customers, after losing class-action lawsuit filed against the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...