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MacAfee Popup

I-Firefox Performance and connectivity
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Ellen Thorp
Ellen Thorp

I don't know where it came from but I cannot get on the internet without this annoying McAfee pop up appearing every few minutes. How the heck do I get rid of it?

I don't know where it came from but I cannot get on the internet without this annoying McAfee pop up appearing every few minutes. How the heck do I get rid of it?

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James
James
  • Umongameli
  • Abanegalelo Abayi-10 Abaphambili

Are these small popups on bottom right corner of Firefox windows?. If so then these may just be web push notifications from sites you have allowed to send you notifications. Instead of useful information, some may instead send you junk, spa, fake virus/trojan alerts, fake antivirus alerts like say fake McAfee alerts. You can revoke 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

Ellen Thorp
Ellen Thorp Umnikazi wombuzo

Hi James, no it's taking over the majority of my screen. All I can do is click on the "x" in the corner and then twice again to get rid of their ad

James
James
  • Umongameli
  • Abanegalelo Abayi-10 Abaphambili

Hmm I was hoping it was not that as I have seen a few threads about this in the last couple months and a cause of this was not found yet.

Does it look like the screenshot below? as it was taken from /questions/1490578

See also https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware

Okulungisiwe ngu James

SuMo Bot
SuMo Bot

Sounds like a job for Sysinternals Process Explorer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2bNLCWHFNs https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=process+explorer+bullseye

Logosor
Logosor

Hello,

Your browser or Windows system displays fake McAfee notifications https://www.mcafee.com/support/s/article/000001899?language=en_US

Click the +sign on How to fix fake PC App Store pop-ups