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Why is something claiming to be McAfee telling my that my Firefox browser is infected? And it's showing me a renewal notice when I do not have McAfee. It's all very annoying. If I download a new Firefox will that fix it?

Why is something claiming to be McAfee telling my that my Firefox browser is infected? And it's showing me a renewal notice when I do not have McAfee. It's all very annoying. If I download a new Firefox will that fix it?

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Are these small popups on bottom right corner of Firefox windows?. If so then they may just be web push notifications from sites you have allowed to send you notifications from. Unfortunately they can be junk, spam, fake virus alerts like from fake McAfee and such instead of useful information or notifications. You can revoke these sites from sending you notifications as see article link below.

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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