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The System Status report displayed 1,559

“issues found”, putting it in a “Critical”

state

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, according to the graphic. Clicking on

Details displayed a message that there were

586.6 MB of “junk files” on the hard drive,

and warned that these could “reduce system

performance”, despite the program’s earlier

diagnosis of our Mac as being as fast as

possible:

Clicking on the unhappy face representing our

Mac’s position at the “Critical” end of the

scale produced the following analysis:

“Critical. Your Mac is overloaded with

unnecessary junk files. There are security

risks, and your Mac isn’t running as fast as it

could be”.

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Please see section entitled “Update” below.

We note that even after installation of

MacKeeper, the hard disk of our Mac still had

488.87 of 499.25 GB free. When we logged on

with a non-administrator account as part of

the test, we found that we had to run the

scan again and sign in again.

We were surprised to see that the computer

has to be scanned, and the program activated,

for each individual user.

When the scan has completed, the user is

urged to activate the product (purchase a

licence) in order to fix the problems the

program claims to have found:

Update

Since writing the report, we have tested

version 3.1.5 of MacKeeper. In this, the

wording on the System Status scale has

changed from “Excellent/Serious/Critical” to

“Excellent/Aggravated/Serious”. Our Mac,

freshly installed once again, was deemed to

be in “Serious” condition, i.e. still the worst

score possible. There was a slight

improvement in the number of problems

found: a mere 1,544 instead of 1,559 with the

previous version.

Kromtech, the manufacturer, provided us with

the following explanation: “MacKeeper detects

junk files even on a brand new Mac because

most of the Applications are supported by the

old PPC architecture which may not comply

with the type of processor installed in the

computer. Also each application has a huge

variety of localizations (languages) that you

would probably never use, therefore our

software defines the unused languages as junk

files, and due to their amount the System

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