Anybody know how to block popups or websites on a MacBook Pro. I'm being bombarded with fake McAfee popups saying my computer has been infected. I don't use McAfee. The popups seem to originate from a website. I'm using Safari as my browser but can't stop them that way. Any suggestions?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14
There has been a flood of this lately.
A site you visited added itself to notifications in Safari. Everything you're seeing is nothing but a scam.
Open Safari's preferences. Click on the Websites tab and then scroll down to Notifications. Clear any entries in the right hand window. You might find something similar in the Pop-up Windows heading below that.
Then if you want, uncheck the box below that as shown here.
I personally can't think of any reason why I would ever want any website to push notices to me.
There has been a flood of this lately.
A site you visited added itself to notifications in Safari. Everything you're seeing is nothing but a scam.
Open Safari's preferences. Click on the Websites tab and then scroll down to Notifications. Clear any entries in the right hand window. You might find something similar in the Pop-up Windows heading below that.
Then if you want, uncheck the box below that as shown here.
I personally can't think of any reason why I would ever want any website to push notices to me.
This is probably the result of fake robot tests, where it asks you to allow notifications to “confirm your not a robot”, when they really just want to send you notifications that you have a “virus” and asking you “click here to fix it”, which really will just install real malware.
Thanks. I give this a whirl and see if it sorts the problem.
Really annoying popups
