“First, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is too long and too wrong for an app that does so much,” Alexis Kayhill reports for Mac 360.
“It’s a Mac janitor, a built-in security guard, a utility handy man app, and a digital mechanic,” Kayhill reports. “Not only can you use it to clean your Mac’s caches, there’s over two dozen additional functions to improve performance, open up secret settings, test RAM and batteries, repair system preference files, and check for viruses.”
Read more in the full article here.
Viruses? What are those?
Is this an ad?
Anyone here ever had a virus on their Mac? Never heard of one.
Poor PC users. I actually feel bad for them.
Make 360 is lameness personified. They love Mac OS 8-era utilities.
That Alexis that wrote the article bills herself as a mommy in her bio.
@ Manbearpig
Yeah I saw and killed a virus on a friend’s Mac…
in 1991! First and last time i ever saw Mac malware of ANY sort.
@Mr. Reeee is the 2010 Lameness Personified Winner, Poor Spell Check Division, Nonsense Team.
“Make 360 is lameness personified. They love Mac OS 8-era utilities.”
I love that site. Lots of reviews for Mac OS X apps for many years. Not one OS 8 era utility that I could find. Not one. Mac OS 8 & 9 have been dead for many years. Long live OS X.
Soon to be renamed iOS for Mac, of course.
i hope MDN got paid well for posting this “mac news.”
most of the crap in SLCC is worthless and unneeded.
Crapware… crashed first time I used it.
Sounds like something a single woman would want…an extra ‘hand’ around to help with the ‘little’ things….
Back when Tera Patrick ran it, before the name change to Mac360, it was a good informative site. After TJP’s unfortunate, untimely demise, the site went downhill quickly. This article is typical of them now: they’ve just discovered a nice utility that’s been around since at least 2006 when it won an award.
@ManBearPig, Yup. I’ve had viruses on my Mac. In fact, my AV just caught a couple last night. They were viruses hiding in Microsoft Office files (even with Office on my Mac). They are generally Windows or Office viruses that do not hurt the Mac although I have seen Office viruses hurt the files they reside in.
Viruses also come in email attachments though, because they are intended for Windows, you won’t experience anything bad. You may have viruses at the moment somewhere around and not even know it since they’ll just sit there, starved for affection, until you pass them on to feast on someone’s PC.
The reason I run AV is because I’m just a nice guy
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Most of us expect at least some limited viruses in the future. Macs aren’t immune. And some of us just like to be ready. For me, I’m happy to get those forwarded Office files cleaned up or off my Mac. But you can keep yours, if you’d like.
MDN, didn’t we ask for post editing for Christmas?
I MEANT to say “even WITHOUT Office on my Mac.”
I use NeoOffice, iWork, and other non MS Office things.
wow, the stupid is out tonight.
OMG aleaj had a crash! IT MUST BE BAD SOFTWARE BECOS OS X NEVER DOES ANYTHING WRONG EVER EVAR!
Some of you think OS X is perfect. You’re idiots. It’s great, it’s the best out there BUT IT STILL DOES NEED MAINTENANCE. In MOST cases, OS X handles said maintenance well enough on its own, BUT IN OTHER CASES IT DOES NOT. Not every Mac acts just like YOURS. The fact that the more zealous among OS X users don’t need it doesn’t mean SHIT.
That being said, I’ve used (S)LCC and it does what it claims to quite well. Why do so many Mac users act OFFENDED every time someone makes an app that addresses the fact that OS X isn’t PERFECT? Emotional attachment to an OS… that’s sad. Go hug your SO (if you have one, LOL) and GET OFF THE INTERNET.
@matt
Forgot to take prozac?
@matt:
My parents have been using their Mac mini maintenance free for over 3 years now — it just keeps on running trouble free.
@Hg Wells:
Of course files on your Mac can be carriers of Windows malware and viruses, this is nothing new, but that doesn’t mean it can affect your system at all, ever.
If you’re worried about Windows friends getting a virus, then maybe clue them into using security software, they’ll be better off for it then they are from you trying to “protect” them.
@Michael, You’re clearly referring to tech-savvy Windows users. Some are of a generation who need others to watch over them.
Nonetheless, when someone asks whether Macs get viruses… they do. It’s just that the viruses won’t necessarily do anything to our Macs except just sit there… waiting. You might not have a problem with these Microsoft loving virii sitting on your Mac. But, dangerous to my Mac or not, I’d rather have them off.
And I’d be cautious about being too overconfident. Most acknowledge that Macs will likely get at least a virus or two down the road.
I have also been in a Mac network situation where it appeared a virus had attacked the network. It was all Mac, but outside PC’s could join on occasion. The system smelled like a virus, acted like a virus, and forced the network administrators to shut it down like a virus. What was it? No one ever found out. But the actions needed to restore the Mac network were very much like what might have been required for a PC virus infection.
Most of the time I run my Macs without AVS. But just because you can run your Mac without AV protection doesn’t mean you should.
Anyone here ever had a virus on their Mac?
I did, after sneezing on it when I had a cold.
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@qka, Most people don’t look, or have AV software that only looks for Mac viruses (none), ignoring PC viruses someone snuck into an attachment or a MS Office file. If you are able to scan for PC viruses, you’ll likely find something in an attachment or file that someone sent.
That does not mean they will affect your Mac. Macs have no viruses (that we know of). So, people are pretty safe running their Macs without looking for viruses.
But people will also have trouble answering your question if they don’t have the tools to scan everything… or if they have very little on their Macs or little interaction with PC users.
Still… using some common sense, you’re currently plenty safe on a Mac.
@qka… Whoops. I over-answered that one! A bit of disinfectant on something soft will likely de-virus your sneezed on Mac!
I would be concerned if it sneezes back in a couple of days though indicating you weren’t successful at eradicating your virus…
@Hg Wells… here’s a quick solution for your Windows friends and how NOT to get viruses. Friends DON’T let friends use crap like PCs with Windows. I remember when OSX Leopard came out and Apple did a demo, some idiot was going on about proper virus software. I was getting irritated, finally stood up, and explained how $60 or $80 or whatever $$ used to buy “virus” software to “protect” any Window using idiot… could be used for iTunes, a new iPod Shuffle, or some USEFUL software on my Mac and that if someone choose to use Windows, WHY should I have to protect them. Morons! Think about this… HOW LONG has Windows been out and STILL deals with viruses ALL THE TIME?! Yeah M$! I’ll stay with my Mac thank you.
@EyerHyme… Sometimes the PC user is very senior and not able or willing to be involved in the “technical” aspects of their PC. Either someone working with them does it all, or it doesn’t get done. For those of us who care about such people, we’ll do what we can on our end.
When the occasion arises, we’ll try to move them to a Mac, while taking on the responsibility for maintenance and troubleshooting. We can’t always move certain responsibilities away from us.
In any case, there really can be (normally inert) viruses on our Macs and I, personally, would rather relegate them to the Microsoft virus grave. Therefore, I have no problem running AV software on my Mac.
Some people here are petty narrow minded. I was not personally aware of the existence of this utility. That if finds and helps get rid of viruses is only one aspect of it’s utility. If it can help squeeze every single processor cycle of performance out of my old G5, I will utilize it.