As mentioned in the article instead of wasting our time and energy doing the same back to them, we have decided to focus only on making our product better and listening to our real users. They actually hired people in their office who used forum spam, link spam, blogs and paid articles to slander us in ways we are still feeling a year later. So, what this did was trigger a kind of “Band Wagon Effect” of others who were like “Yea we hate them”. These guys were running Google ads saying we were scammers selling malware and anything else bad that they could create, we got those ads suspended for violating Google’s ad terms and the fine folks at Google 100% confirmed exactly who was the competitor running them against us.
The story was featured here: EXCLUSIVE: MacKeeper Says “Unethical Competitor Trying to Tarnish Our Reputation” We were the victim of a massive black PR campaign by a small competitor who is now cloning our apps one at a time: You can see some of our real customers and industry professionals talking about MacKeeper on our YouTube Channel here. We have 150 employees and really do care about the products we make and the people who use them. I personally believe it is just the nature of the business in the age of “Internet Trolling” and it is so easy for anyone with too much time on their hands to trash businesses or products online anonymously and with no repercussions.
MAC OF ALL TRADES SCAM SOFTWARE
The results are the almost the same for nearly every industry leading software that offers Mac Security. Apple sells a lite version of MacKeeper called 911 Bundle through the official Mac App Store, which is carefully vetted for malware.Īlso, as a general rule look at some of the other companies who are in the business of Mac security and see the search results for example if you search Google for norton+mac+sucks you will get about 18,700,000 results… We know that Norton is not a bad company, right? You may not like them or their products but you know they are not scammers and their software is not malware, but the internet is loaded with thousands of results saying the opposite. The company was one of the sponsors of Macworld, which is as mainstream as a trade show gets. Some of the wilder accusations - that Zeobit is a hacker outfit that makes an insidious virus - are way off. According to Fowler, the sleaziest Zeobit marketing comes from third parties that it has no control over. The company also runs an affiliate program that appears to be widely abused. It parades scantily-clad booth babes at Macworld. It runs online ads everywhere, including sneaky pop-unders. It’s a very active and aggressive marketer. Zeobit has earned a lot of notoriety for its advertising practices. While looking into Zeobit last week, I came to some of these same conclusions myself. Zeobit’s Fowler said the company has become a “forum punching bag” thanks to four things: a negative PR campaign from a rival company Zeobit’s aggressive advertising tactics out-of-control affiliates and confusion among users between MacKeeper (legit software) and MacDefender (a Trojan). All week I’ve been checking out reviews on the Web and I can’t find a bad one.
MAC OF ALL TRADES SCAM PROFESSIONAL
It runs pop-under ads, plants sock-puppet reviews and encourages sleazy affiliate sites, critics say.īut what’s really strange is that MacKeeper has been almost universally praised by professional reviewers. Zeobit is slammed for seedy marketing tactics. There are protests about MacKeeper’s annual subscription fees. It erases your hard drive, deletes photos, and disappears documents. Instead of speeding up your computer, it slows it down. It can’t be completely removed if you decide to delete it. It holds your machine hostage until you pay up. The complaints about MacKeeper are all over the shop: It’s a virus. Look at all those furious comments on the post. We discovered this ourselves earlier this month, when we offered a 50%-off deal on MacKeeper. Check out any blog, site or forum that mentions it, and you’ll find hundreds of furious comments condemning MacKeeper and Zeobit, the company behind it. The application, which performs various janitorial duties on your hard drive, is loathed by a large segment of the Mac community. There may be no other app as controversial in the Apple world. MacKeeper is a strange piece of software.
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