Windows 10: Fraudulent advertising "Virus detected 5"

Certain sites w/cookies can gain access to push notifications through your browser. I got this one yesterday. I checked my notifications in my browser and I had at some point accepted the cookie with permissions to allow notifications from this web site. Meanwhile, Defender says everything is okay. It is not easy to detect fraudulent activity for most users as many are not certain of how the notifications work in Windows and do not understand how to control and manage the alerts enabled by accepting cookies along with certain notification privileges. Something pops up and says you have a virus

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How to clean out this advertisement virus?

Your screen shot shows it as a Chrome Push Notification...





Block the site as @Callender suggested.

It's not a virus, it's browser cached items! Delete them.

 

replace wallpaper by fake virus protection advertisement

some internet noob was browsing some unsafe tgps on an old classic computer 466mhz celeron.... and using IE..... pop ups everywhere... one of the pop ups ask ok or cancel to scan for virus..... and clicked cancel.... and infected.... wallpaper got replaced by some fake virus protecton advertisement.

scanning with AVG and TCspy in safe mode.

any furthur additional reccomenation or suggestion?

 

** ZEUS VIRUS DETECTED - YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN BLOCKED **

Suggestion to also read

• Beware of Phony Emails & Tech Support Scams

In case you keep on getting these pop ups, it is recommended to run some scans as described here:

• Remove Zeus Virus Detected PopUps

And some further reading material:

• Best Practices for Safe Computing - Prevention of Malware Infection