This. They have to refund the amount people spent, but they don't have to do anything for the victims time? What about all the money they made investing the money people spent on MacKeeper? That is money the victim could have invested.
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Customers Who Bought MacKeeper Can Get a Refund Under New Settlement
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This. They have to refund the amount people spent, but they don't have to do anything for the victims time? What about all the money they made investing the money people spent on MacKeeper? That is money the victim could have invested.
I'm going to use my Mackeeper settlement money to buy SoftRAM so I can double my memory.
I'm absolutely shocked over 500,000 people bought mackeeper.
People are so incredibly gullible when it comes to tech. I remember being asked if I knew of any good software to "clean" this guy's Mac. Windows has really destroyed people's perceptions of what a computer should be.
Lol no. It was internet spam and pop ups that would scare the computer illiterate into downloading it and paying for it. Making them think they were protecting their computer, when in actuality did more harm.
MacKeeper basically is the Conduit of OS X, is all you need to know. Every single Mac-targeted popup tries to get you to download this junk. As someone else said, it is THE main reason to use an ad blocker in OS X. If you're unlucky (or, rather, foolish enough to use a sketchy download site), you'll be installing something totally unrelated and randomly end up with a trial version of it, and it'll annoy you incessantly.
I really hope the company goes bankrupt. Rubbish malware product offered to people who thought it might be genuine, not cool.
Isn't $2 million awarded to those who filed a class lawsuit? And anyone else who purchased it can also claim a refund?
I'd imagine the "most" bit isn't true, and it'll continue to sell enough copies to remain a money-maker.
I'd like to see every scum tech writer who took inducements to write favourable stories about this POS adware/malware, pay back every cent and be hung drawn and quartered for deceiving their readership into buy this evil crap. Cult of Mac have done so at least twice each year for several years. I let them know exactly what I think about them, I encourage others to do the same, and any other Apple blog that did too. Payment for comment is nothing more than criminal deception.
They used to pop up all the time when visiting a certain den, a bay of sorts, for pirates trading in illicit e-goods such as copyrighted films, tv shows and the like. And they managed to get through every ad blocking anti-popup software one could imagine.
yep. cultofmac is the only reason i thought mackeeper actually was a legitimate product that 'some' people had problems with - not that i ever used it, thanks to MKeepers blatant shady antics. the difference between this site and cultofmac's should be pretty apparent at this point. all product reviews i've read on MR actually seem like suggestions from the staff - some of them do have the taglines and 'product review language' the actual product uses in marketing, so people here get a bit testy and skeptical, but after some light digging i found out about MKeeper and therefore the true nature of cultofmac's biz model.
I believe there was recently a report of this and the site owner had the ad removed from ad rotation by the third party company that handles this.
My experience has been if you see a skeevy ad and report it in the Site and Forum Feedback section it gets dealt with pretty quickly.
Edit: Here is the SFF thread I was thinking of.
Oh, that's a nice way to put it...
Another way could have been: "most (advanced) Mac users knows it's way less that a bloatware"
Or: "most (advanced) Mac users knows it's a little more than a virus"
yep. I've met a lot of Mac users (I am one myself), and most of them hardly know their ass from their elbow when it comes their computer. I doubt most mac users have any clue about MacKeeper, or the things it can do to their Mac.Oh, that's a nice way to put it...
Another way could have been: "most (advanced) Mac users knows it's way less that a bloatware"
Or: "most (advanced) Mac users knows it's a little more than a virus"
