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Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Log in sign up User account menu 16 Is CleanMyMac legit or is it a scam or virus.

Is it a legit program Have any of you ever used it How is it Do you recommend it If not, what do you recommend instead Thanks 27 comments share save hide report 72 Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast Sort by best level 1 8 points 4 years ago Its good to run once in a long while to purge old caches of apps.

If you notice any bugs in certain apps it can sometimes fix them by simple refreshes its caches level 1 Comment removed by moderator 4 years ago 1 child level 2 3 points 4 years ago Does.

For example, Cookies are also an target of frequent deletion.

Cookies cannot store or transmit malware and cannot contain any information beyond what you provide via forms on the web site and what is publicly available to any web server you connect to.

While this is technically true, ad networks still have ways to track you.

And while Safari does try to prevent it third party cookies, there are ways around that as well.

It also has a really good uninstall feature that will get rid of everything instead of just deleting the.app file.

Continue this thread level 1 2 points 4 years ago CleanMyMac might cause issues.

With macOS Sierra it has the option to auto delete all the duplicate downloads and upload your desktop and documents to iCloud.

Also after installing an app it can automatically delete the dmg file.

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I did find the app slimming feature useful when I had a small SSD, and the uninstaller is handy - but these are both things you can get free tools for.

I think the cleaning is largely psychological and I dont think it ever made anything run faster.

It makes uninstalling apps easier level 2 3 points 4 years ago edited 4 years ago I agree Ive been using cleanmymac since 2010.

Has a lot of extra features that the other cleaners dont have (to my knowledge) i.e the reset app feature which resets the app to a like new state which comes in handy from time to time.

Despite what others have said, I havent had any system issues with Clean my mac but then again thats just my experience opinion.

Continue this thread level 2 1 point 4 years ago If you use it only for uninstalling then give this a try AppCleaner Continue this thread level 2 1 point 4 years ago Theres AppCleaner that does the job and its free.

Usually different malware software distribute self in a like manner.

But I can recommend to try old and well known for many mac users OnyX ( ) to clean caches and etc, and Disk Inventory X ( ) to find large files on your disks.

This tool also helped me a lot to move rare used files to iCloud Drive level 1 1 point 4 years ago I have it and also the app that deleted repeats.

Heres the thing, if you have more than 120gb on your Mac it really isnt going to be doing much.

It has a very attractive design and does what is promised in the sense that you do have something like five gigs Freed up from it but I dont really feel like its necessary or that helpful.

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