[Technology] Fake McAfee and Norton pop-ups – How to Remove?

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Gilliver's Travels

Gilliver's Travels

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Jul 5, 2003
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Brighton Marina Village
I’m suddenly being inundated with repeated, obviously fake McAfee and Norton pop-ups. Running on PC, Microsoft Edge, Windows 11.

I have tried scanning with the normally reliable Malwarebytes, but nothing is being detected. Anyone else had this – what’s going on, and how the heck do you remove it?

Advice very welcome!
 






Whoislloydy

Whoislloydy

Well-known member
May 2, 2016
2,749
Vancouver, British Columbia
Gilliver's Travels said:
I’m suddenly being inundated with repeated, obviously fake McAfee and Norton pop-ups. Running on PC, Microsoft Edge, Windows 11.

I have tried scanning with the normally reliable Malwarebytes, but nothing is being detected. Anyone else had this – what’s going on, and how the heck do you remove it?

Advice very welcome!
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Funny you should mention that as i've been getting the same one but only when opening the Argus link in the sun cream thread
 








Weststander

Weststander

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NSC Patron
Aug 25, 2011
72,772
Withdean area
Recommended by our IT consultants. Download the free version of Avast.

Once running, in remove progs delete all other anti virus, firewalls and malwarebytes. You might want to also look there for the rogue cookies/progs. In your browser delete all cookies. You also won’t need the firewall that came with the pc, as Avast includes that, you can disable Windows Defender.
 


Cordwainer

Cordwainer

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Jul 30, 2023
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Had exactly the same on my daughter’s windows laptop. In the end reset it (whilst keeping files), updated it and then ran a scan and thankfully it had fecked it off.
 


clapham_gull

clapham_gull

Legacy Fan
Aug 20, 2003
26,500
Popup (sidebar notifications) in Windows are similar to alerts/notifications on your phone.

As some point via an annoying pop up you actually agreed to them. I have a friend who spent quite a bit on anti-virus because of them. She was also receiving hundreds of fake anti-virus prompts.

You turn them off in the browser settings at which point they are simply ignored / blocked whatever.

Without having to trawl through the settings menu, the URL to take you straight there for chrome is

chrome://settings/content/notifications.

For edge

edge://settings/content/notifications

This are not links to external sites. Just shortcuts to the browser settings.

It's really as simple as that.
 




















Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam

Comrade Sam
Jan 31, 2013
2,164
Walthamstow
I use Surf shark on my laptop, but the old McAfee pops up with a reminder to renew every time I switch it on. I have spent hours trawling the internet as to how to get the buggers off my laptop, to no avail. So now I just grumble about it.
 














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