![]() Don't get sucked in by a pretty interface. As for the rest, listed above, it is safe to say that nobody who really knows what they're doing with Macs and macOS will touch them. TinkerTool System is a an exceptional piece of quality engineering, safe when used properly, and superbly documented, with in-depth tutorials for every option. :: The only system maintenance tool I recommend is TinkerTool System, a true bargain priced at only $14 for a single license. And I apologize for the almost unreadable formatting, a severe limitation of MacUpdate itself, which compresses maximum text into minimum space, leaving no whitespace for readability. But if all you can come up with is 5 stars and a sentence or two saying that program X is great and I don't know what I'm talking about, please save your breath. I will rate all these programs with one star, probably one more than they deserve. If I have missed any programs that should be on the list, please leave a comment and let me know. The user is well-advised to read any program documentation and make a RELIABLE BACKUP before attempting any changes. Macs simply do not need "cleaning." (See for example: ) Some of these programs are notorious for being little more than malware. True experts in macOS maintenance advise against using any of them, because in general they serve little useful purpose and they can easily do more harm than good. Most of the developers' descriptions boast about what a great job they do, but the truth is, there are no good, comprehensive, head-to-head reviews of these programs by impartial 3rd parties. A boot sector virus is a type of virus that infects the boot sector of floppy disks or the Master Boot Record (MBR) of hard disks (some infect the boot sector of the hard disk instead of the MBR). Many - probably the most accurate and honest - have negative reviews, by users who have been burned by them. Many have what look to be essentially fake 5-star reviews with no useful commentary. There are 35 in the list, and it seems like new entries in the 'Mac cleaner' market space pop up every day, metastasizing like a cancer. (I did a search for 'cleaner'.) If MacUpdate will let me, I intend to post this every time a new or updated version of one of these things shows up on this site. As a public service to the MacUpdate community, I've found as many of these "cleaner" apps on this website as I could and listed them them below. This is not a review per se, it is a discussion of the class of software to which this program belongs. It's three stars given in the hope that he can come up with a more useful app in the future, to which I can gladly award 5 stars. What's the point? As a courtesy to Mr Groth (assuming he's a real guy - you never know about these things, and who trusts a website these days?) I'm going to give 3 stars here. ![]() For example, while the "Dashboard" in Sensei looks pretty, the information it contains is readily available either in the System Information or Activity Monitor apps. It has to be hard to be in competition with 75 other "me too" products that no Mac user needs. I really hope he can turn his talents to something more useful than Sensei. The developer, Oskar Groth of Sweden, looks to be a nice chap. I find the review by "ahmedhatata-ah" on 8/12/20 both amusing and truthful, when he writes, "similar Mac utilities all suck." If Sensei is a "similar Mac utility" it must suck too - right? (Or am I missing something subtle here?) No matter. Fast forward six months or so and much has changed: there are now 75 (yep, that's SEVENTY-FIVE) cleaner apps on MacUpdate that no one recommends. Sensei has a wide range of options to block all of those things.Let's see: I left a review on 7/20/20 noting that there were 35 other similar "cleaner" apps in addition to Sensei, and that no one who knows Macs recommends of any of them. Best you can do is block known malicious domains and teach people common sense web browsing + no torrents/warez and you wont get malware. ![]() Thats not feasible at home with IOT devices, phones etc. Sensei or any web filter/dns based system can see hostname/ip you go to but NOT the content, thats what is expected with SSL and is the point of it, so any SSL visibility appliance (untangle has sslv, clamav sniffs traffic, etc.) needs a server/client cert in order to decrypt traffic. Hope this helpsĮdit: ClamAV is probably not an option for a home user anyways, most (all) traffic should be SSL/HTTPS meaning no visibility really unless you have a certificate you generate on all devices being filtered. ClamAV in the opnsense plugins section can do this as well, though its clamav so your mileage may vary. If you go to a known malware domain it will block if that option is selected, it absolutely is not meant to replace a virus scanner, or common sense. Thats what local av is for on desktops along with suricata signature analysis.
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