Zeobit is slammed for seedy marketing tactics. There are protests about MacKeeper’s annual subscription fees. It erases your hard drive, deletes photos, and disappears documents. Instead of speeding up your computer, it slows it down. It can’t be completely removed if you decide to delete it. It holds your machine hostage until you pay up. The complaints about MacKeeper are all over the shop: It’s a virus. Look at all those furious comments on the post. We discovered this ourselves earlier this month, when we offered a 50%-off deal on MacKeeper. Check out any blog, site or forum that mentions it, and you’ll find hundreds of furious comments condemning MacKeeper and Zeobit, the company behind it. The application, which performs various janitorial duties on your hard drive, is loathed by a large segment of the Mac community.

There may be no other app as controversial in the Apple world. MacKeeper is a strange piece of software.