40 Macworld • February 2022

REVIEWS

MacKeeper

Price as reviewed: £10.95 from fave.co/3pDj0WM

U

tter the word ‘MacKeeper’,

and many Mac users will

cringe in horror. That’s

because this utility

program picked up a sordid reputation

in years past. Under its previous

owners, MacKeeper was severely

criticized for being difficult to uninstall

and for using scareware tactics to try

to convince people to upgrade to the

paid version. A former owner was even

the target of a class action lawsuit

in 2014, alleging that the company

deceived users by reporting phony

problems with their Macs. To make

matters worse, a 2015 data breach

leaked certain account details of

millions of MacKeeper users.

Now MacKeeper is owned by

Clario, which has been striving