Hi! I have had them tell me that snake32.exe was a virus and needed to be removed from my computer before. Obviously, this is funny, because .exe is a Windows file association. Of course, people who've never looked at file extensions before probably don't know that, so it's easy enough to believe the scare tactics. After all, my father almost believed it.
I actually bought MacKeeper once, and haven't used it since. I didn't even remember I'd bought it way back until I did some digging. I haven't seen their silly popups ever since I prevented Safari from showing them and only enabling them when required, and made sure my Mac had no malware. I can't say I'm surprised by the class action suit. Nicolai > On Oct 24, 2015, at 6:25 AM, Michael Marshall <[email protected]> > wrote: > > are they the fools who make those stupid popups that come up on some sites > and say stuff like > Your mac is infected with spyware? > how stupid do they think we are? >> On 24 Oct 2015, at 7:03 PM, Eric Oyen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> just added them to my firewall. this way, I can't get to them and they can't >> get to me. :) >> >> btw, I use Waterroof as my firewall interface on my OS X Lion system. Its a >> little tricky getting used to at first, but with a little time and some >> reading, it becomes the app of choice for us. >> >> -eric >> >> On Oct 23, 2015, at 11:07 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: >> >>> Pity they didn’t get a proper smackdown in your courts for that day’s work. >>> >>> I block Zeobit, Krontek and MacKeeper domains at the border. I consider >>> that lot indistinguishable from malware purveyors. This is truly >>> unfortunate as they clearly aren’t actually true malware but have simply >>> chosen an unethical business practice to scare people out of their money >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
