How to turn off McAfee Pop ups

Go to Safari > Settings > Websites > Notifications, and Deny Notifications for all Websites.

Go to Safari - preferences. A box will appear, click on Websites. On the left click on Notifications. You will see a choice to either allow or deny SYSTEM NOTIFICATIONS. Click Deny.

The fake mcafee site leaves a cookie, which creates the pop-up. I think. I saw what the website was, went into settings on safari, went to privacy, manage website data, and deleted the offending website. So far so good.

What worked for me was to:

• Use two fingers to click on the pop up
• Select the turn off option displayed from the menu

Please let me know if this works for you, my software version reads Sonoma 14.3.1 so it may not be applicable to all.

Unless you have a specific need to have a Website pop up a Notification, then you will want to block it. There are not any websites that I use that I need to be notified of any action on screen, although that is just me. Allowing every website you come across to pop up a notification will make it much more likely that you will see the kind of Notifications that you had.

You can try to turn them on one at a time to determine which one is giving you problems. From the screen shot you posted, I would suspect the one named "NOTIFICATIONS".

Please read Stop unwanted Notifications - Apple Community.

Just Deny the Websites that come up in Notifications one by one.

Please read Stop unwanted Notifications - Apple Community.

Please read Stop unwanted Notifications - Apple Community.

Please read Stop unwanted Notifications - Apple Community.

Is sounds like you got it figured out. A reputable website will use the Notifications as intended and they can be useful, but that is not the case for every site.

I would say the same is true for the Pop-Up Windows setting that you posted also. Some sites will require a Pop-Up window to work correctly and will usually tell you that. Other sites may use that to Pop-Up a dialog box that looks like a Software Update to get you to install some software you do not want. Just be aware of phishing scams similar to the McAfee notification and don't give out your Apple ID and Password to one of those.

This solution isn't possible in Sonoma 14.1; there IS no "Deny Notifications for all Websites."

This is going to drive me mad! What can I do to stop it so that I don't just end up ignoring all system notifications?

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