It was the first Malware, Virus or what ever, I have had on a mac ever!! 25 years…. I would assume that Apple can uninstall the Mac Keeper App as well. They had just installed files in my mac that were creating the problems. Note: I had not installed the actual Mac Keeper App on my computer. There are places on line, maybe Apple, that can tell you what files to delete. That is what I did last night and the tech was great, knew all about it and had me up and running in about :30 mins. If your Apple Care has expired, pay them 29.00 and they will walk you through the files that have to be removed. Ours here in Peachtree City, Ga will do it for free.Ģ. Take it to your local Mac Dealer and some dealers will fix it for free!! Others may charge a fee. In the applications folder, look for MPlayerX, NicePlayer, or other suspicious applications and drag them to the Trash. In the Finder window, select Applications. Their software will indeed fix it but it still is in your computer and you paid them 200-300.00, I have heard, for their software to fix something they created!!!!Īs to the fix: There's hope. MacKeeper adware removal: Remove MacKeeper-related potentially unwanted applications from your ' Applications ' folder: Click the Finder icon. Of course they will sell you their software to "fix" your Mac (which they screwed up!). The ONLY option is to click 'OK', which I refuse to do, because I know almost all of these 'cleaner' apps are malware, with hidden stroke counting codes. I clicked on a link, to go to a website (not MacKeeper), and the window opened for MacKeeper, with a pop-up to let MacKeeper clean my Mac. It is a warning window that appears that it comes from Apple!! It says Apple will help if you call the 800 number. A MacKeeper ad was in the sidebar, of the page I was on. MacKeeper is an absolute scam!!! They screw with Safari, put in files that produce ads, make Safari search in Yahoo instead of Google and then flash on your desktop that you have a big security issue.
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