Kromtech's U.S.-based spokesman, Jeremiah Fowler, warned him that the company would take Wadood to Norway District Court if the videos weren't removed.įowler warned that the videos "imply that MacKeeper is a scam and is engaged in criminal activity, and these false claims can be considered as an additional case for libel and slander."
About a month after he posted a fourth video in April, titled "Trolling MacKeeper (Once Again)," he received an email from MacKeeper. 'Your Parents Will Pay'įor some of his videos, Wadood prank called MacKeeper's tech-support line, apparently harassing technicians. Luqman Wadood explains his decision to keep a video that's critical of MacKeeper online. "MacKeeper, I'll meet you guys in court," Wadood says in the video. But he's holding strong on the fourth one and has published an impassioned video defending his decision and challenging Kromtech to make the next move. He's since removed three of the videos, marking them as private so the public can't view them.
#MACKEEPER SCAM OR REAL SERIES#
Now, one of MacKeeper's latest negative reviewers - 14-year-old high school student Luqman Wadood who lives in Stavanger, Norway - provides new insights into some of the heavy-handed tactics Kromtech uses to try and quash content it doesn't like before potentially following through on those threats by filing a lawsuit.īetween December 2015 and April 2016, Wadood posted a series of four videos on YouTube that took aim at MacKeeper. "MacKeeper, I'll meet you guys in court."
#MACKEEPER SCAM OR REAL UPDATE#
On July 21, I reported that MacKeeper did not inform its users that the product was failing to update, for up to six weeks, during which time the users would have been at increased risk from malware infections (see MacKeeper Hid Product Update Error). But setting aside the company's marketing tactics, MacKeeper has had real issues.
See Also: Live Webinar | Best Strategies for Transferring Sensitive Financial Dataįrustrated by MacKeeper's pop-up advertisements and warnings, those who've vented about the program online have occasionally gone overboard, characterizing it as an illegal scam, which puts them at risk of potential libel or slander claims. of Germany, which owns MacKeeper, carefully monitors the internet for negative reviews of its product and, in some cases, threatens legal action against reviewers. MacKeeper, the embattled security program for Apple computers, has attracted vitriol over the years due its aggressive advertising of its security evaluations of computers.
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