How to remove "Ask you" Notification on Mac

You have clearly never run out of space on a APFS volume. If you run out of space on APFS you literally cannot delete files, because the APFS equivalent of a superblock must first be journaled to disk and if there is no space to journal it before deleting the files then you cannot delete anything!

In such a situation, if you force restart to recovery mode, then sometimes enough uncommitted files will "go missing" to make it possible to delete something to make enough space to write the journal to allow you to delete more.

The official Apple solution in such a case: use Disk Utility to reformat the drive, losing the entire contents of the drive.

Because of this it can be useful to run a third-party cleaning up to periodically empty trash and remove cache files -- reducing the likelihood that your drive will fill completely.

Weijing211

thank you for your easy and effective fix. I've been fighting with ousting this malware for over 3 weeks to no avail.

I came across your solution when I changed the question in my search. I'm migrating to a new Mac and wanted to make sure I wasn't transfering any problems. I can now open the box with my new Mac, I've had it for 2 1/2 weeks. So again thank you very much for your fix, it is greatly appreciated.

@John Galt

Thanks.

The main challenge was finding out just what it was, and where it was hiding. I found a couple articles that described its behavior to a tee. The problem was one had me going on a goose chase trying to find its process in Activity Monitor, and looking in some Library subfolder to find a startup configuration for it. Another talked about it existing in the Applications folder. I don't know whether to fault these articles, because maybe Ask You used to be installed in these other ways, but they were little help to me.

I understand. At least half the problem is knowing exactly what to call these things, since a Notification is different from a website popup window, which is different from a system dialog... etc.

The only thing they have in common is something annoying 😄

Hi, I just did that and I'm still getting the notifications. I went through Safari removed all of the websites to be safe, but I still have this in my settings. (Refer to picture) It says 'ask you' in my settings but I'm not sure how to remove it.

Omg thank u so much, I had so many notification from this thing. Now it seems ok. It appeared as u said when I did the fake (I didn't know yet) human verification pop up, then I thought that I uninstalled but it turned on, then with your help it seems all ok!!

Nice! Thank you for this. I feel like I was making way more out of this than what it was. Im just glad its fixed now!

awesome thank you!

Perfect, thank you

Thanks a lot. I was bugged by this setting icon notifications and autoopening of some malicious appearing site 'cardheighlize.com ' for past few days. Your advice has been very helpful.

This is what I was looking for. Thank you Weijing211!

The same issue and can't get rid of it

yep, it was the same thing for me. In Safari with no name. It was the only notification that I had in Safari so I found it right away

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Other sites had users looking all over their computers for this "Virus" best answer was here. Worked like a charm.