Has anyone used Spring Cleaning software?

I'm trying to uninstall some programs that don't have that option and was considering using this program called Spring Cleaning.
I tried to find some reviews for it, but couldn't find any.
Has anyone here used it and/or have anything to say about it?
Thanks a lot.
J.

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SkippyChalmers may be on to something. I have heard good things about that program. I haven't personally used it.
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Has anyone used the mackeeper software?

Short answer: I don't recommend it, but it's not "a scam" or malware, per se. If you use it, you may have some real performance issues.
Me: I was an actual MacKeeper user (paid version) for about two years. What follows is my experience and conclusions. I am not a paid reviewer, nor tech professional. I am an educator with about 15 years of experience using Macs. I am what most people would call a "prosumer," in that I know a good deal about my systerm, but am not a techie, anti-utility software zealot, etc. I have no affiliation with Zeobit (manufacturer of MacKeeper) nor any of its competitors.
I bought MacKeeper in 2011, and then upgraded last year. I used it to remove junk files and duplicates, and experimented with the anti-virus software. I didn't use most of the other features.
The problem: I am running a 2009 15" Macbook Pro 2.8GHZ Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 512GB HDD. Over the past year, it has been having major performance issues. Slowdowns, hangups, applications quitting and more were all becoming the norm. I deleted duplicate files and ran MacKeeper a few times a month. I also ran permissions repairs regularly (disk utility). I looked for the cause of the slowdowns everywhere, from too many user accounts being open, to resource hogs. I decided that MacKeeper's Anti-Virus software was just taking up too much RAM and CPU, so I disabled it. I continued experiencing slowdowns and started monitoring my available RAM with a freeware app called Memory Clean. It often reported that I had less than 500MB available, even with very light usage, application wise. After "cleaning" memory, I could get my available RAM to about 1.5GB, max. I struggled with these issues for a year or more, and was about ready to concede defeat and buy a new machine. I figured my MBP was over four years old, and perhaps running Mountain Lion and normal wear/tear were just too much.
This morning, I noticed that the biggest resource hog on my system was a process called "MacKeeper Helper." The process relaunches even when it is forced to quit. It was consuming over 100MB of RAM and up to 99 percent of my CPU at times! I also noticed a process called "anti-virus" that also could not be quit, and was consuming over 100MB of RAM itself. I started researching how to kill these processes, and was introduced the the Great Online MacKeeper Controversy. Here is what I learned:
Some in the Mac community have pure hatred for this product (and some hate all like it).
There were numerous user reports of it slowing down systems
Zeobit seemed to be guilty of questionable ethics, particularly in its advertising.
There was no way to stop MacKeeper Helper and Anti-Virus processes from running with deleting the entire application.
I wasn't the only one annoyed by MacKeeper's system pop-ups, trying to sell me something I already bought.
The software got good professional reviews, even from well-respected publications (e.g. MacWorld)
It is often confused with Mac Defender, which WAS malware. They two are not associated.
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The Results: I have been MacKeeper-free for about an hour as I write this. Put simply, my problems appear to be completely solved. MacKeeper Helper and Anti-Virus are gone. Available RAM is now up to 2.75GB. I have experienced no slowdowns or app crashes. Even bootup appeared to be considerably faster. Launching iPhoto with thousands of images now takes a few seconds instead of minutes. Everything feels faster. It's like I have my Mac back! I was ready to admit defeat and dish out another $2500+ that I didn't have. I now think that won't be necessary!
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Has anyone used Malwarebytes or anything similar to protect Mac from virus etc

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I should have been more specific, I wasn't given a Mac to keep, I was given a Mac to clean up. I have almost 20 years experience working with personal computers and I've worked on every major OS that's been released during that time (OS/2, every version of Windows since 3.1, Linux, Mac OS, Unix). I no longer work in a shop specifically fixing computers but my family still gives me their computers to look at whenever they have issues. My cousin just gave me her laptop since she was unable to fill out any web forms that would try to verify her e-mail address, plus she kept getting pop ups to run some MacKeeper software. Had this been a computer I received second hand I would have re-installed the OS regardless of the state it was on, but since she needs the files on her computer for school I figured it'd be much easier to run a Mac OS equivalent of Malwarebytes than to backup everything and re-install the OS.
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Re: Interfaces in Forte - has anyone used them?

We are making use of interfaces extensively and have never had the
slightest problem. Interfaces do not cause any overhead, since they are
mainly a means to support type checking by the compiler. At run-time the
interface does not appear any more.
Using Forte 3.0.F.2
General wrote:
>
We are embarking on the analysis phase of a large pay/personnel project. =
We have been advised to use interfaces wherever possible, because they =
promote flexibility and reusability. I am fairly well convinced of the =
benefits of using interfaces - they appear to have a lot of advantages, =
and no drawbacks. However, I do wonder whether Forte's implementation of =
interfaces is stable and usable (..it was only introduced in version 3). =
If not, we may be better advised to use standard techniques.
If you have used Forte interfaces I would be interested to hear how you =
got on.
regards,
Tim Kimber--
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Eric,
You are correct, "manipulate anAIFace object" is not really the correct
way of thinking about what is happening. We are really manipulating an
instance of an object through an interface.
In regards to your other statement: "if Project C needs visibility to B,
it must have B as a supplier Plan." Forte does not force this to happen
when you are using interfaces, which is what causes the problem. Let me
expand on my initial example and add enough detail so that you can create
the problem, which surfaces as a deserialization error:
Project A (No Supplier Plans)
Defines Interfaces: UnitIFace with method GetValue() which returns an
integer
Project B (Contains A as a Supplier Plan)
Defines Class: Unit with attribute _Value as an integer and method
GetValue() which returns _Value. Implements interface UnitIFace.
Project C (Contains A as a Supplier Plan)
Defines Class: Square with method Calculate which accepts an
UnitIFace as an input parameter and returns an integer. This class needs
to be setup as a distributed object so that I service object can be
defined using this class.
Defines Service Object: SqaureSO using the Square class.
Project D (Contains B and C as Supplier Plans)
Defines a class or uses a window that creates an instance of Class B
and passes it to the SquareSO service object that sqaures the value and
returns an integer.
Once this is setup, use the running man to run everything locally. This
will run fine because the dependencies for the local partition end up
including Projects A, B, C and D. Next, run distributed and move the SO
to a remote partition. Now when you execute you will receive a
deserialization error. This happens because the dependencies for the
remote partition only included project A and C. The partition did not
have the necessary information to deserialize the underlying instance of
Class Unit that is referenced through the inteface UnitIFace.
The problem can be resolved by either adding Project B as a supplier plan
to Project C or ensuring that the interface and class are declared in the
same project as I suggested in my previous message. In either case, this
must be resolved by the programmer since Forte is not yet smart enough to
correctly resolve the project dependencies, even though all of the
information needed to establish the correct dependency hierarchy is
available.
Bradley K Wells
[email protected]
Strong Capital Management, Inc
http://www.strong-funds.com/
From: Eric Pereira
Sent: Friday, July 31, 1998 5:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Interfaces in Forte - has anyone used them?
Bradley,
Thanks for that descriptive note on interfaces.
I do have a observation : in that example you gave us, if Project C
needs visibility to B, it must have B as a supplier Plan. Therefore, I
don't quite understand how partioning classes in C would end up with a
run-time errror in distributed mode, given that B supplies C (something
you've perhaps missed out in your example ?).
Also, is it really possible to "manipulate AIFace objects" ? Interfaces
are'nt really objects, they just help implement a compile-time type
check.
Thanks.
Eric Pereira
Forte Consultant
----<snip>------------------
Example:
Project A - Contains AIFace
Project B - Contains Class B which implements AIFace, depends on Project
A
Project C - Contains Classes manipulating AIFace objects, depends on
Project A
This can run fine locally since the local partition has knowledge of all
the classes in A, B, and C. Now as soon as you throw a service object
on
classes on Project C and push them into a remote partition, your
application starts failing because that partition does not contain the
information form project B since there is no dependency on that project.
The partition needs the information from project B though since it
contains the definitions for the actual implementation objects, however
there was no way for Forte to determine that need when it generated the
partition.
This problem is initially eliminated by keeping the interfaces in the
same project as the underlying business objects. But once you start to
have interfaces implemented by multiple classes from multiple projects,
then this won't cover all the bases either. In any case, it is an issue
that you will need to consider at some level when using interfaces.
Good luck!
Bradley K Wells
[email protected]
Strong Capital Management, Inc
http://www.strong-funds.com/
From: "Ngai, Stuart" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:10:50 -0400
Subject: RE: Interfaces in Forte - has anyone used them?
With version 3G, you can not create an array of interfaces. I believe
Forte
will have that feature in version 4 (which is scheduled to be in
production
at the end of next year).
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Kunst [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 1998 8:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: General
Subject: Re: Interfaces in Forte - has anyone used them?
We are making use of interfaces extensively and have never had the
slightest problem. Interfaces do not cause any overhead, since theyare
mainly a means to support type checking by the compiler. At run-timethe
interface does not appear any more.
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