How to get rid of McAfee pop up notifications? I don't remember installing it, or if I did, I uninstalled it ages ago and now suddenly there the notifications are again. Every post I've seen tells you to go to Applications and use the uninstaller...but what do you do when you can't see the McAfee application anywhere and have no installer?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.6
The same issue with the "McAfee..." pop-ups appearing for about 5-10 seconds every minute or so was also being experienced. The issue was finally tracked down to Safari's Settings/Website seeing the websites listed. I eliminated them one-by-one until the "McAfee..." pop-ups were not appearing. It was the "Notifications" website item that was the culprit. After that "Notifications" website was removed, the annoying pop-ups were completely gone. Just for good measure, all of the remaining websites listed were also removed. The checked box for "Allow websites to ask permission to send notifications" was also unchecked.
Did you try a new user account as a test?
To find out if it's system wide or user specific, try this...
Open System Preferences>Users & Groups, unlock the lock, click on the little plus icon, make a new admin account, log out & into the new account.
Does it work in the new account?
That won't help. You have to turn off notifications directly in Safari's own preferences. It's been explained more than once already in this topic.
Daemons have nothing to do with pop-ups. The correct answer is on the first page of this topic. Look where I've shown how to remove unwanted notifications in Safari's preferences
The free Malwarebytes may take care of it...
There's no need to start up into Safe Mode. The moment you remove the rogue notification entries in Safari's preferences, they'll stop.
The images accompanying those deceptive Notifications are easily copied and used for illicit purposes. Most scams work that way, in an effort to lend an air of legitimacy: "it looks like something official, so it must be."
Unfortunately you have to develop your "street smarts" to protect yourself these days. Phony "tech support" / "ransomware" popups and web pages illustrates a few similar examples.
EllieinIL wrote:
Get rid of McAfee scam pop-ups.
I agree. Get rid of them.
Follow the instructions already posted to this Discussion, or these: Stop unwanted Notifications - Apple Community. They all say the same thing.
Oh, I see what you mean. You pull all of the Notification options in System Settings to off.
Scam artists figured out how to leverage Safari Notifications so we can only expect these annoyances to accelerate at a rapid pace.
In the same manner, reflexively saying "just say no" will eventually become the commonly accepted reaction. Toss another great idea onto the ash heap of technology.
Thank you. I have had this notification pop up a few times and i have done what you have said however i am still concerned about this. Is this something to worry about or will this stop it? Thank you again.
poppy118 wrote:
... Is this something to worry about or will this stop it?
It will happen again and again and again until you learn to "just say no" to websites that ask to send you Notifications.
As Kurt Lang wrote:
I personally can't think of any reason why I would ever want any website to push notices to me.
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To turn off the annoying McAfee notification: Open the menu under the Apple symbol, upper left. Choose System Settings. Choose Notifications—it is beside a bell within a red square in the first half of the list. Do not bother adjusting all the Apps. Just look toward the lower third of the list: Find the gear icon with the word NOTIFICATINS next to it. Select off. That turns off all notifications.
I use different browsers—it kept popping up every few seconds on my iMac until I disabled Notifications altogether in Apple's menu of System Settings, under the Apple icon. Also, I did what you said just now for good measure.
It told me I had visited an illegal site and God was going to get me—or words to that effect. Wow! In any case, my method worked, and it has stopped popping up.
Thank you. This fake malware keeps popping up and when I click No or Pause. (Only 2 options) My 2 month old Mac freezes up completely. 2nd day in a row.
The scammers used a copy of Apples System Setting icon for the 1st small pop up - so that looks pretty legit. Then the full page appears, McAfee but the web browser clearly shows something else and you have no option to unfreeze your computer to make a purchase or shut it down.
Did exactly as you outlined ... tossed the three P-Lists altogether and cleared the trash of them. Restarted my Mac OS Big Sur ... brought up Safari ... two minutes later, there it is again the exact window you illustrate. I have been shoving the box over and down to the right with my mouse arrow to see only a sliver of white at the right corner. That's the only way I could think of to get it from being completely annoying.
How to get rid of McAfee pop up notifications on my MacBook Pro?
