If you bought MacKeeper and discovered it didn’t live up to what it said, you can get your money back.
For those who don’t know, MacKeeper is a piece of software that claims to optimize your machine’s performance as well as protect your Mac from viruses and other malware, but many users have noticed that it doesn’t quite live up to these claims. .
As a result, A class action lawsuit has been filed against ZeoBIT (the company that developed MacKeeper) and the company eventually settled on $2 million. This means that if you purchased MacKeeper and are not satisfied, you have a chance to get a full refund.
A class action lawsuit filed in May last year accused ZeoBIT of deceptively promoting MacKeeper and making false claims about what the software could optimize and fix. More specifically, the lawsuit says that MacKeeper will give users false security and performance issues to get rid of the “issues” in excess of the $40 required to purchase the software.
AV Comparatives (an Austrian company that tests anti-virus programs) recently tested MacKeeper In a new version of OS X Yosemite. The software warned that the computer’s condition was “serious” and more than 1,500 files needed to be cleaned; in this case, users were asked to purchase the full version of MacKeeper to clean their machines.
While the company denies fault, it is putting $2 million into a fund that will return MacKeeper purchases to ZeoBIT claimants to get their money back.
Court documents say that 513,330 people purchased MacKeeper for $40 per copy, amounting to a maximum of $20.5 million. Not every one of these buyers will file a claim, however, as usually only a handful of people will file claims in a class action lawsuit, but as the number of claimants increases, the amount of refunds will decrease. Also, a third of the $2 million will already go towards attorney’s fees. This means that if each user requests a refund, there will be roughly $2.50 in cashback.
Not exactly a full refund, but still, few claim in most class action lawsuits.
However, if you want a refund (how much) on MacKeeper, the only condition is that you purchased MacKeeper before July 16, 2015. this website to make a claim. From there, simply click on it. Here you will enter your name, mailing address and email address used to purchase MacKeeper.
You must submit your claim by November 30 this year, as the court won’t give a final confirmation until October 16th, giving the public a chance to speak and oppose the deal if they want.
Also, since the software was sold to a German company in 2013 and is not currently part of a class action lawsuit, it is still possible for the current owners of MacKeeper to sue, but that could change.
You may have seen MacKeeper advertise in various parts of the internet, perhaps on several adult video websites where the software spends most of its time advertising. This is probably a big sales pitch for the company, and considering that adult content has the mark of secretly installing malware on your computer, and you get a popup for MacKeeper saying it will, it’s also a good way to do it. Getting rid of this malware seems like a win-win situation.
That said, MacKeeper doesn’t seem to quite live up to the hype (or lack thereof), and enough users have complained that something as big as a class action lawsuit is finally filing.
