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If Macs were cars, their owners would run them through the carwash daily.

Its an easy way to manage routine tasks and keep your Mac secured, clean and running fast This all sounds great, of course.

Everyone at risk Lead plaintiff Gregory Ward claims in a suit filed in Cook County, Ill., Chancery Court that MacKeeper -- like the performance testers so common in the Windows world -- finds every computer as at risk and in need of repair, Courthouse News Service reports.

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ZeoBIT guarantees that the full version of MacKeeper software, which costs 39.95, will clean up the Macs hard drive, remove junk files, boost login time, and generally speed up the computers performance, Ward says.

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Contrary to ZeoBITs marketing and in-software representations, however, neither the free trial nor the full registered versions of MacKeeper perform any credible diagnostic testing of a users Mac, the complaint states.

Instead, ZeoBIT intentionally designed MacKeeper to invariably and ominously report that the consumers Mac needs repair and is at-risk due to harmful errors, privacy threats, and other problems, regardless of the computers actual condition.

Other skeptics Ward is not the only one whos suspicious of MacKeepers claims.

Its been a hot topic on many Mac forums but it also has its defenders, though some of them are rather reluctant.

An anonymous computer repair technician, for example, writes the MacExpertGuide.com blog and in a 2012 review, assured readers that MacKeeper was not a virus or malware.

Its real software but whether its worth installing is another matter, he said.

For more than 4 years, I have run my own computer repair company.

During that time, I have come across quite a few Macs that have MacKeeper installed.

If these computers were running as they should be, the customer would not be coming to me for help.

In every case where MacKeeper has been installed, it has been the main culprit of the problem sic, the unnamed blogster, who did not immediately respond to a request for further comment, wrote.

Even if MacKeeper does its job well for some users, there are a majority who found that the software caused severe problems on their Mac, he said, and recommended several alternatives that he has found less troublesome.

Whos who Its not entirely clear when ZeoBIT is still involved with MacKeeper.

We share the vision of providing innovative software and products to our customers and we are excited to what the future holds for MacKeeper and PCKeeper said an unnamed spokesperson for Kromtech in a December 2013 press release.

He also served as Senior Vice President of United Press International and was the founder and editor of Zapnews, a newswire service for radio and television.

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