I have been gettin a message pop-up, Mackeeper, Clean your mac. Is this legit or should I just ignor it?

I have been getting a message pop-up when I log on to the internet. It reads, Mackeeper, Clean you mac. Is this a legit site from Apple or should I ignor it?

Paul_31 wrote:
And just in case it somehow managed to leech its way onto your Mac:
http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/
It's not really malware but it is extremely poorly written software. It has a fairly good user interface and is easy to use but, when the virus protection kicks in, it hogs all of the CPU resources and everything else slows to a crawl. Consider thirty seconds merely to open a large folder. I had it for several weeks and trashed it. Also, trashing it is easy. The old "drag to trash can" works just fine.

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It's not legit > https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3691
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