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Macworld reader Michael Downend is having difficulty ridding his Mac of a utility he no longer desires. He writes: How do I get rid of MacKeeper?
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I won’t go into why you’d want to, but we get this question frequently. It’s definitely worth going into detail about how to remove MacKeeper completely from your Mac. Versions of MacKeeper made in the last couple of years are actually pretty easy to uninstall, but the process isn’t entirely straightforward. Remove MacKeeper from the Mac menu bar If you click on the MacKeeper menu in the Mac’s menu bar you won’t find a Quit command, which might lead you to believe that it can’t be quit. Force-quitting doesn’t seem to work either.
To remove the MacKeeper icon from the menu bar: • Launch the MacKeeper app in the Applications folder. • Click on the MacKeeper menu and then select Preferences.
• Click on the General tab. • Uncheck the box for Show MacKeeper icon in menu bar. IDG Disable MacKeeper from appearing in the menu bar. Now you can quit MacKeeper. If this is your first time running it, no, you don’t have to activate MacKeeper or sign on for any of its services.
Just choose Quit from the MacKeeper application menu or press Command-Q. How to uninstall MacKeeper • Go to the Applications folder on your Mac. • Drag the MacKeeper app to the Trash. • You may be prompted for your administrator’s password. Enter it, click OK, and the MacKeeper app will move to the Trash.
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• Another pop-up will appear that is very similar to the previous one. It asks if you are sure you want to uninstall MacKeeper. 
Enter your password and click OK. IDG Optional MacKeeper ‘Sad to see you go’ survey After you uninstall MacKeeper, Safari will launch a page from mackeeper.com.
It’s a survey, asking why you uninstalled the software. You don’t have to fill it out. You can quit Safari and ignore it.
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IDG The MacKeeper survey is optional. How to remove the remaining MacKeeper bits Not all of the MacKeeper software bits are removed. Crumbs might remain. A MacKeeper Backups folder isn’t removed.
You can find it in your Home folder (In the Finder, click on Go > Home or press Shift-Command-H.) You can toss this folder into the Trash. IDG MacKeeper puts a Backups folder on your storage device that you can trash. There are a few other places you might want to check to make sure any remaining bits are removed. The most recent version of MacKeeper (3.20.8) as of this writing did get all of these on the uninstall, but it’s still smart to double-check. The following may be found in you Mac’s Library folder.
To access this Library folder, hold down the Option key and, in the Finder, choose Go > Library. You can toss these files in the Trash if you find them. • ~/Library/Application Support/MacKeeper Helper. Inside this MacKeeper Helper folder is a NoticeEngine.plugin file. Go ahead and toss the MacKeeper Helper folder and this file will disappear right along with it. • ~/Library/Caches/com.mackeeper.MacKeeper • ~/Library/Caches/com.mackeeper.MacKeeper.Helper • ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mackeeper.MacKeeper.Helper.plist • ~/Library/Application Support/MacKeeper Helper • ~/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mackeeper.MacKeeper.plugin.AntiTheft.daemon.plist Now just empty the Trash and vow to stay far, far away from MacKeeper forever and ever. Pop go the pop-ups If you downloaded MacKeeper “legitimately” (as in, from MacKeeper.com), it’s possible you aren’t seeing a ton of pop-up and pop-under ads in your browser.
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