• Zeobit LLC (stylized ZeoBIT) was a technology and software company formed in 2009 by CEO Slava Kolomiychuk and located in Sunnyvale, California. The company specialized in computer security software and internet security. As of December 2016, it is no longer in business. Zeobit is best known for the bundled utility software MacKeeper.
• MacKeeper is owned by Kromtech, who brought it from the original developer Zeobit. According to Vickery (who goes by the screen name FoundTheStuff) on Reddit, “The data was/is publicly available.
• The new MacKeeper app delivers multilayered protection from malware, online threats, and identity theft & Mac performance optimization. Learn what is MacKeeper.

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If you've had a Mac for a while, there's a good chance you've come across an ad for a software called Mackeeper. It's a Cleaning utility originally developed by Zeobit LLC which was acquired by Kromtech Alliance Corp, a German-based IT investment and development company, in 2015.

I’m not a big believer in the need to keep Mac optimized for speed, not in the same way as a Windows machine might need it at least. But I began having some issues with my Mac which were resulting in slowdowns and general unreliability so I went on the hunt for something that might help speed things up.

I’ve also never been a big believer that using Disk Utility to ‘Fix Permissions’ was a necessary thing either – but let me put that one to bed right now. I ran Verify Permissions and discovered that I actually needed to run Verify Disk too. Doing this alone sped up the Mac and seemed to make it more reliable. But by now I had already downloaded MacKeeper and decided to have a look anyway.

The first thing that struck me was how fantastic their support team are. I contacted them about an issue and they had it resolved within minutes. The live chat function being extremely useful for me to get in touch with them, and of course means no expensive international phone calls required.

MacKeeper comes with a raft of features that make it very worth the $38 per Mac (depending on which version you go for) including an innovative anti-theft idea which uses the built in iSight camera of a MacBook Pro to take a picture of a thief and utilising wireless networking location features (if available) to assist with locating the MacBook and enabling you to pass as much info as possible to the police to help recover the laptop. Thankfully I’ve not needed to use this as yet! I don’t normally link to articles on the publishers website, but this one is just a bit too interesting not to. Have a look over here, after you finish the review!

One area that Mac users can often become a little complacent is that of Anti Virus. Everyone who uses PCs recognises that they need to use AV software in order to minimise the likelihood of their banking details being handed over to undesirable people – but most people believe Macs to be invulnerable. That’s a myth. Whilst Macs are considerably more difficult for the average ‘script kiddy’ to compromise, there are still some rogue applications and programmers out there and as Mac becomes more and more popular it’s likely that attempts to release viruses and malware into the mac world will also become more popular. MacKeeper comes with an anti-virus solution and at $38 for a year, that’s already about half price from the windows variants.

The anti-virus screen is fairly simplistic, but functional and has everything it needs to have (see screenshot linked to the right). My initial reaction to running a full system scan is that it appears to be insanely slow when compared to Windows antivirus solutions. I suspect it’s doing a fine job, and if you’re running it in the background it doesn’t seem to affect the performance of the machine (which Windows AV Scans can be susceptible to) but at the rate it’s going, it’ll take something like 4 days to scan my whole MacBook. I’m not sure that will be in any way useful so I may seek some feedback from Zeobit on this. Fortunately the antivirus scan continues in the background so you can still use other features of MacKeeper while it’s running.

Another potentially extremely useful feature of MacKeeper that I really wish I had last week is an Undelete tool. In my particular case, I needed to retrieve a Microsoft Word document that the Autosaver had saved, but because I stupidly said ‘No’ when it asked if I wanted to autorecover after a crash, Word (dutifully and correctly) deleted it. My original document was gone, and so was the autosaved recovery version. If I had’ve had this feature at that time I could’ve easily recovered my Uni assignment instead of re-typing it all!

Using the undelete feature is simple – choose the disk you think your file should be on and press the Start Scan button. MacKeeper will then scan that disk looking for lost files and present you with a tickbox list of the files it finds. It’ll also categorise them, although I’m not sure how accurate this categorisation is. Also, my scan failed with an ‘Unknown error occurred’ but that may be because I was still running the virus scan that I started hours ago. One thing to note here is that you cannot undelete a file to the same disk which seems odd, but not a showstopper. I assume you can plug in a USB key and restore your files to that disk instead though.

There’s a whole slew of other features under the title of Data Control but I’ve not had cause to use any of those as yet. One that I will be investigating (and possibly creating a new review for it, or adding to this one) is the Backup and/or ZeoDisk feature. But for now, I am leaving those alone as I want to move on to some of the other particularly useful features.

Under the Cleaning category – which is why I originally wanted MacKeeper in the first place – is the Binaries Cutter. This is an area of Mac that probably eludes most people because most people really don’t need to know about it. Before I can go into too much detail, some history is necessary. Back in 2006, Apple switched the hardware platform upon which Macintosh was based from PowerPC to Intel. In most areas that doesn’t cause too much of a problem because access to the hardware directly is forbidden by programs and any access to the hardware must go through specific operating system calls. But in one area there is a problem and that’s the machine code (the 0’s and 1’s) are specific to the processor type that a program is compiled for. Basically, PowerPC and Intel speak completely different languages so programs written for one can’t run on the other.

If that confuses you, don’t panic. It simply means that there’s two types of programs available for Macs. The old (legacy) PowerPC version, or the new Intel version. Fortunately, Apple are clever and they realised that people wouldn’t want to have to figure out which type of Mac they have, so they created a system they call ‘Universal Binary’ which essentially means that you have two programs in one for every program you buy. That means a Universal Binary will run on either the old PowerPC architecture or the new Intel architecture. That flexibility comes at a price though. Every universal binary has two sets of machine code stored inside it, and one of them will never ever be used. So if you’re an Intel Mac user, you’ve got all that space that’s been included for PowerPC users.

Binaries Cutter removes the un-needed portions of the Universal Binary, freeing up disk space (and probably, although I’m not entirely sure) making the program launch quicker since there’s less work for the Mac to do now that one of the program translations has been removed. Note the comments from other users below though before you use the Binaries Cutter option.

And on the note of translations, you may or may not know that your Mac comes with various languages installed – and applications themselves may well come with extra language translations stored inside them. This all takes up extra space, so if you can only speak 1 (or two, or even three) languages, you can clean a lot of space up by removing the various other language translations.

There’s a plethora of other useful utilities, such as the Disk Usage utility which shows you where your disk space is being used, the Duplicates Finder which finds duplicate files (surprise!) and allows you to delete the ones you don’t want. I didn’t find that particularly easy to decide how to use. In some ways I’d like it to just delete the duplicate files, but on the other hand, which one does it choose to delete? So I suspect some manual effort is required to go through and check out which ones to delete. But it’s a handy tool.

Another fantastic part of this toolkit is the Update Tracker which looks at the various applications installed on your system and then goes off (somehow) to find the current version available. If your version is older than the latest, MacKeeper will tell you and will also fire up your web browser to go and fetch the latest version! It’s like the App Store but for all the other apps you bought elsewhere. This on it’s own is also worth the $38 fee.

All in all, my skepticism at the value and necessity of MacKeeper has all but vanished. It’s very easy to use, it’s price point is well worth it, and it has cleaned up my Mac hugely, just with the automatic steps. If I could be bothered to go through the more manual stuff I suspect I could improve the disk space and performance of my mac even further. The only downside I found was the speed of the antivirus scan – which really is quite ridiculously slow.

MacKeeper is the app that you never realised you needed, but once you get it, you’ll wonder how your Mac survived without it.

• 8/10
  Design - 8/10
• 8/10
  Features - 8/10
• 5/10
  Cost - 5/10
• 9/10
  Ease Of Use - 9/10
• 10/10
  Customer Support - 10/10
• 7/10
  Overall Value - 7/10

Summary

Positives: Good support, works well, anti-theft looks good
Negatives: Anti-Virus very very slow, costs a lot
Trial Available: Yes, limited
Price: $49.99 for Lite
$69.99 for Standard
$99.99 for Premium

Website: http://mackeeper.zeobit.com

If you've had a Mac for a while, there's a good chance you've come across an ad for a software called Mackeeper. It's a Cleaning utility originally developed by Zeobit LLC which was acquired by Kromtech Alliance Corp, a German-based IT investment and development company, in 2015. You can check out their website by clicking the button below:

Mackeeper has been under some heavy criticism in the Apple community for advertising heavily. In this post, I'll review the tool itself and uncover some of the truths about Mackeeper that will help you decide if it's worth your money or not.

Is Mackeeper a “virus”?

Mackeeper parent company, Kromtech Alliance Corp, advertise their products heavily. That advertising includes annoying popups that sometimes start downloading mackeeper automatically to the user's computer. For this reason, many people label it as a virus that is sneakily trying to install itself on their Macs.

The truth is, even if the download automatically starts from a popup, you can still cancel it. If you don't manage to cancel it, the software won't install itself on your Mac unless you open the .dmg file and install it yourself.

Yes, those are seriously aggressive marketing tactics and I think Kromtech should rethink their marketing strategy but I won't call mackeeper a virus just because of that. It is not a virus/scam. It's just that the parent company is notorious for its aggressive advertising campaigns.

Why is Mackeeper disliked in the Apple community?

We live in an age where we'll believe just about anything we read on the internet. Most of the people who bash mackeeper haven't tried it. They just read a negative forum/blog post about it and believe Mackeeper to be whatever the post says. This kind of a chain effect continues and coupled with Kromtech's aggressive advertising, gives Mackeeper a bad name in the Apple community.

This is why I decided to get a license myself and test it out myself on my Mac. Below is my impartial review of some of the tools Mackeeper has.

I also worked out a deal with the Kromtech guys. They've hooked me up with a 66% percent discount on the 2-year plan. That means you can save $240 if you buy it using the link below. It's not just for the 2-year plan though, the discount applies to all plans, even the smallest one.

Now, on with the actual review…

Installation is pretty simple. You download the .dmg file, open it, and follow the on-screen instructions.

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Here is how the main screen looks:

Drivers ncr printers. Memory Cleaner:

My Mac has 4 gigs of memory and sometimes it struggles to give the best performance due to lack of memory. Running Mackeeper every now and then helps me free up some RAM and that comes in real handy. I just ran the memory cleaner and managed to free almost 400MB of RAM.

Duplicate Finder:

The duplicates finder detects file copies that take up hard disk space on your Mac. It groups such identical files even if they were renamed so that you can decide to delete them or transfer them to an external storage device to free up hard disk space on your Mac.

You can also group the duplicate files by file types. For example, clicking on “video” tab in the duplicates finder module will only show duplicate video files. Here's a screenshot of the duplicates finder screen:

Smart Uninstaller:

This is a nice handy tool to uninstall apps from your mac properly. Just deleting apps from the “Applications” folder is not enough. This is where Mackeeper comes in. It shows you a list of apps you can choose to uninstall from. Then after uninstalling it, it scans your entire hard disk for leftover files associated to that app and removes them. This not only saves storage space but also helps with the performance of your mac.

Login Items:

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This module simply shows you the list of apps that start with your mac. You can add or remove apps in your login items by clicking the + or – sign.

Disk Usage:

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The disk usage module scans your hard disk and lists all files and folders present on it along with the size of the folder right next to its name. The folder size is displayed in 4 colors (red, orange, yellow, green) depending on the size of the folder.

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Anti Theft:

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The anti-theft module serves two purposes. One, it prevents unauthorized access to your mac. Two, it helps you track your mac in case it gets stolen. You set it up once, and in case your mac gets stolen, you can use the web interface on mackeeper's website to track your Mac's location and even take a photo of the intruder/thief using your Mac's iSight camera.