Turning off System Notification on Safari in my MacBook running macOS Ventura.

If you are using Safari, open Safari Settings, go to Websites in Safari Settings. Scroll down and select Notifications.

Go through the websites listed and for any suspicious ones or ones you don't recognize, select Deny or select it and then choose Remove.

You can also go to your Mac's System Settings, select Notifications, and look for the item with the icon that showed with your notification, select it and disable all its notifications.

mwlyons wrote:

In Notifications look for pagtik.co.in. That is the offending webpage. I have no clue how I picked it up.

Old Toad has the quick answer.

Here's how to: Stop unwanted Notifications - Apple Community

If this follows the usual, you were likely offered notifications from the website, and accepted those, and now no longer wish to receive those notifications.

Contrary to some of what was mentioned earlier in the older parts of the thread, anti-malware will not find and will not remove these notifications, as this website is using documented macOS features to provide user-requested notifications. It's not malware. There's nothing here to "find".

Are you using Safari, Chrome, Brave, etc.?

You should run a scan with Etrecheck (you need to grant Etrecheck full disk access in System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access). Then you can attach the report using the Additional text icon when you reply to this discussion thread. This will give us logs showing what's running on your system. No personal data is included except for hardware and software details. This can help us identify if you have any adware, scamware, malware loading.

You can also install Malwarebytes and let it scan and remove the offending code.

Yes, that worked for me. Picked this up by going to https://whatsmyip.org. I suspect the link included some bonus data. Since my default browser was Safari, clicking this link created the notification malware entry. The instructions worked for me, the bogus entry was "notifications". I checked deny and then removed it from the list.

Thanks for the tip

Etrecheck is free, the author is a member on this forum and frequently helps others. Yes, he sells a version but you don't have to buy it. It will diligently do the scan and let you share the report.

However, your problem seems to have been a rogue advertisement that offered a notification prompt you must have accepted. It was then added to System Settings -> Notifications and it sounds like you removed it successfully.

If you continue to experience problems, then I would recommend running Etrecheck and posting the report.

MrHoffman wrote:

Contrary to some of what was mentioned earlier in the older parts of the thread, anti-malware will not find and will not remove these notifications, as this website is using documented macOS features to provide user-requested notifications. It's not malware. There's nothing here to "find".

They're not just "documented macOS features" – they're documented Web standard features. Standards which when abused by scammers and spammers, allow them to target any platform running a modern Web browser.

A few months ago, en elderly lady came to a help lab with a Chromebook that had become useless because these types of scam messages were constantly bombarding her screen. The controls for blocking them were in a different place than they are for Safari on a Mac, but blocking the notifications ended the bombardment. As far as I know, she hasn't been back with the problem.

A screenshot on the subject:

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In Notifications look for pagtik.co.in. That is the offending webpage. I have no clue how I picked it up.

Thank you all! I have been working on this all day and finally found it. Mine was "SYSTEM NOTIFICATIONS" in my notifications section.