DetectX Swift

A ½ star for an anti-malware tool on the sole basis that it costs $10 - or is there more to your review than that? Many malware services cost a lot more than that for an annual subscription and you don't have to buy a licence if you're only using it for personal use.

Apologize for shooting a 'flare' to applehelpwriter…it was incorrectly addressed to a member vs developer…go figure?

Good point. I can't correct that as MacUpdate haven't yet assigned this page to me as the developer (I wasn't the one to upload it).

I've asked them to do that now, then I can change it to shareware.

In the meantime, note that DetectX Swift's home page states correctly:

"What does it cost?
For home use? Nothing if you prefer! DetectX and DetectX Swift are shareware, which means you can go on using them without sharing a cent!"

:)

Hi

That was a problem with earlier versions of the beta, but I made changes to ameliorate that a few iterations ago. If you haven't tried the observer function again recently, it might be worth another go.

@chrisB: You're probably right. I misconstrued your comment. Because, well, you know, this thread is about DetectX Swift, after all. So it's not so preposterous that I though you were including it with your condemnation of cleaner tools. Beg your pardon. That said, CleanMyMac is not in the same league as Mac Keeper, which is truly malicious garbage. In fact, CleanMyMac has received largely positive reviews. While CleanMyMac may promise more than it delivers, it's hardly scareware. If you're using a relatively small SSD, saving space is not a trivial matter. Though, as I said, there may be better ways to do so.

Now that that's out of the way, I tend to agree with you, though not in so hostile at manner, that these cleaning tools are largely unnecessary. But that may depend on circumstances. I know people who have made umpteen copies of many or their images, most of which they don't need, even if they know where they are, as they often don't. But who has the time, even with a cleaner tool, to sort through them all. What people really need is a reliable filing system. But for most that's not going to happen either. That's why Apple developed Spotlight, so you can, theoretically at least, find your files wherever they are.

Many people no longer have spacious hard drives in their computers, so Apple has found a way to help folks and make money at the same time, renting cloud storage space. "We don't care how lazy or incompetent you are, for a fee we'll save you from yourselves."

None of this bears on DetectX Swift, but since you brought it up, I thought I'd do you the courtesy of exploring the subject further, with less invective. Accept for the part about Apple. It's they, after all, who shrunk their computers so you'd be inclined to use their cloud services—if you couldn't find a better solution, like storing your own files on an external drive.

By the way, the trial version of DetectX Swift found no problems on my 4 year old iMac. That's really no surprise because Malware Bytes doesn't either. But I check periodically—with their free version—just in case. Since I rarely find a problem, I'm not inclined to pay their subscription fee. At least DetectX Swift is not yet a subscription service. But who knows, that seems to be the way of the world.

Feel free to contact me @sqwarq support if you need feedback on that.