![]() Wanna backup your Documents folder on a weekly basis? There you go, no problem. You can create as many backup locations as you want in the Preferences, the pick some stuff to backup, set a time schedule and choose a backup location. ![]() The Backup feature is very well developed too. All in all, Cleaners do their job pretty well and fast too, I’ve been able to remove around 2GB of data in less than 3 minutes, without any particular effect on the OS. You can of course sort items by name and size, if you want to check what’s taking most of the space (damn Safari cache). There are some buttons in the bottom toolbar, you can use them to check / uncheck all the items, rescan and remove the items MacKeeper has found. I think this is the first time I’ve ever used Coverflow on my Mac, perhaps ‘cause I was forced too. ![]() It includes all the tabs from the Cleaners section, arranged in a Coverflow view. Starting from the top, there’s the “One Click Scan”, which lets you perform a general scan of your Mac to get a quick (but complete) overview of what’s going on with your computer. While the Cleaner tab sports features similar to what competitors like CleanMyMac already offer (cache, logs, binaries), the tools and services are unique to MacKeeper, and rather useful. It’s not like MacKeeper tries to do a lot of things poorly, all the things it can do are greatly executed.įirst, MacKeeper is divided in 3 different sections: Cleaners, Tools and Services. At least, I’ve never seen all this stuff together in a single application. MacKeeper is a multi-purpose maintenance application, as it lets you perform usual tasks like cache and log cleaning, together with neat stuff I haven’t seen anywhere else like deleted files recovery, default apps manager and a very useful backup tool. Today I’ll take a look at the new kid on the block, MacKeeper, which aims at keeping your Mac healthy and clean, but comes with other additional functionalities that could really make it stand out from the crowd. This applies for caches, system logs, binaries, unused language files.įortunately, there are some apps that enable you to perform maintenance tasks thus deleting that unused space, and I think CleanMyMac from MacPaw (which we previously reviewed here) is the leading app, powered by a great UI and a large set of features. Did you know that when you trash an application, it leaves many stuff behind it and that if you don’t use a dedicated app uninstaller (like AppZapper) that stuff will remain there for good? Imagine that stuff being a bunch of 200MB cache folders and you get the idea. Mac OS X is a great platform, but this doesn’t mean it can’t become slower over time, especially because of caches, logs and undeleted preferences. I do have ClamXav, which I run once a year for grins, to see what has tried to get through.Though many people say you don’t need to do any kind of maintenance on Mac OS X, I’ve gotten used to run a couple of applications every two weeks or so to keep my Mac clean and healthy. I use Ghostery and Adblock+ to block the browser hijackers and the one time I let one through by accident, Malwarebytes app removed it cleanly. AV for OS X can only clean files that are infected with Windows viruses, and in my experience, they are mostly in emails (usually spam) and occasionally in a non-application download (pictures, social media stuff, etc). But the bottom line is that there are NO viruses currently in the wild for OS X, but malware does exist for Java and Flash. But, probably just to keep the advertising totally accurate and to reduce any potential challenges to that prior statement, they changed it. Technically the issue was with Java, not OS X, and if you did't run Java, it didn't impact you at all (I don't use Java because I know how vulnerable it is still). Apple removed that boast three years ago when a Java vulnerability was exploited on all platforms on which Java could run. ![]() But not the "replicate 100,000 copies, take over the hard drive, encrypt the data, wipe out files, etc, etc, etc" variety. The malware that you see on Macs is of the annoying kind-browser hijackers, DNS redirectors, false ransomware. But not all malware is in the virus category. Nobody says there isn't malware for OS X. ![]()
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