OS 10.12.6
Quite often Mackeeper will appear uninvited asking me to download. Today it appeared and said I had 3 viruses and to remove them I should download Mackeeper.
I have ClamXAV and it didn't find anything. What is the story with Mackeeper and is there a way of preventing it from appearing?
It appears when you browse the Web because unethical Web owners place ads on their Web sites that open scary-looking but fake virus warnings urging you to download MacKeeper.
You can ignore these warnings; they are phony.
The makers of MacKeeper have already been sued twice, and lost twice, for fake virus warnings. They just pay the fines and move on, because fake virus warnings are a huge, huge moneymaker, and getting sued is simply part of the cost of doing business.
