virus scam
clicked on small info page website icon for a snooker club and linked me to Mcafee (allegedly) whereupon lots of alerts about malicious software and viruses invading my laptop. As Defender shows everything clear I assume this is a scam. The link address is shown below as a screenshot of 'new notifications'. I uninstalled Firefox and refreshed everything. I use DuckDuckGo as search engine. Operating System is Windows 10. Any assistance to prevent these -virus alert 'notifications' popping up would be appreciated.
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I don't think Firefox relay is a Mozilla software. That sounds more like it coming the site itself and not the browser.
markwarner22 said
I don't think Firefox relay is a Mozilla software.
Firefox Relay is indeed a Mozilla product https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/new/relay https://relay.firefox.com/ as the premium version of Firefox Relay is one of Mozilla subscription based products.
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Squawk57 said
whereupon lots of alerts about malicious software and viruses invading my laptop. As Defender shows everything clear I assume this is a scam. The link address is shown below as a screenshot of 'new notifications'.
The screen shot shows you are getting web push notifications from sites you have allowed to send you notifications. Instead of useful information, they may send you junk, spam, fake virus/trojan alerts and such. You can revoke the sites from sending you notifications.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/push-notifications-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/push-notifications-firefox#w_how-do-i-revoke-web-push-permissions-for-a-specific-site
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