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Getting phony security alerts after clicking on something I shouldn"t have

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Vincent Machnig
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Picture of message attached. How do I fix?

Picture of message attached. How do I fix?
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Mark
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In Firefox, go to the Permissions section of about:preferences#privacy. Open the Notifications Settings and remove the website to prevent it from sending notifications.

James
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Vincent Machnig said
Picture of message attached. How do I fix?

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

This looks to be a web push notification from a site you have allowed to send you notifications from. Instead of useful information some may instead send you junk, spam, fake trojan/virus alerts and such. You can revoke these sites from sending you notifications.