Windows 10: Fake McAfee Popups

I just started getting fake McAfee popups yesterday. I have a one year old HP laptop running Windows 11 Pro with this hardware: IntelR CoreTM i5-1035G1 CPU @ 1.00GHz 1.20 GHz and 8 Gb of Ram. I looked at Microsoft Edge settings, extensions, etcetera, etcetera. I looked at task manager looking for clues in services and processes. Still nothing. OK so I started doing some screen captures looking for clues. One of the screen captures mentions a website "adforyounews.com". I opened up the registry editor and did a search for that and voila! The thing turned up in a bunch of different regist

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New ODD Google Chrome Notifications

Hi Bill,

Shawnloveshorse is right, these are just notifications - a clean install is not necessary!

There is a step-by-step tutorial on how to remove these popups from Google Chrome here:

How to remove fake McAfee popups in Google Chrome

 

McAfee popups

Hi, if you get an indication that your AV has detected a virus, you should take that seriously. Don't simply uninstall the AV or disable it.

You say

- do you mean it's disabled? (Many functions will be if you have a 3rd party AV installed).

- did nothing happen at all, or did it start to uninstall, or what?

Are you even sure you have McAfee AV installed- or do you have one of their other products - see those listed here:

McAfee Removal Tool - McAfee Uninstaller

If McAfee is damaged in some manner you could try to uninstall it. Here are two ways:
McAfee Consumer Support- Official Site

Methods 1 & 2.
Method 2 uses a separate tool you download. Most AV's have such a tool.

If you do that you should find Defender is fully enabled again, and you should ensure it's up to data and run a full scan.

 

McAfee popups

a lot of info for me. never installed mcafee. now im getting norton virus stuff, something about money being taken, being hacked, lots of different stuff.... the mcafee that was somehow in cont panel did uninstall, not listed now, and Ive never seen all that other mcafee stuff. all the w-defender items are checked and say no action is needed, same w/mbytes. never had another one besides mwarebytes.

porthos - I set msoft edge notif from on to off,,,the popup that was there disappeared at same time,,,,will have to see if it fouls up something else...this seemed liked simplesst thing for a novice like me to try, but I dont understand why things were okay all along so far when it was 'on'.