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Hi everyone,
Since a few days I have a little warning about virus alert showing on the top right corner of the screen.
When I click it does open a page which is for sure a scam of some sort.
Did you had an issue like that and any idea to stop this pop up ?
Thanks for all advise.
MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
Those are website notifications. The reason for their appearance is that agreed to have one or more websites send them.
Stop them by following these instructions:
For reference: Change Websites settings in Safari on Mac - Apple Support
Don't allow websites to send you Notifications unless you are 100% certain you want them. I cannot think of a single reason anyone would want to invite that kind of harassment.
Refer to Customize website notifications in Safari on Mac - Apple Support. Deselecting "Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications" will prevent those websites from even asking your permission to be harassed by them.
Those are website notifications. The reason for their appearance is that agreed to have one or more websites send them.
Stop them by following these instructions:
For reference: Change Websites settings in Safari on Mac - Apple Support
Don't allow websites to send you Notifications unless you are 100% certain you want them. I cannot think of a single reason anyone would want to invite that kind of harassment.
Refer to Customize website notifications in Safari on Mac - Apple Support. Deselecting "Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications" will prevent those websites from even asking your permission to be harassed by them.
I am getting these popups every few seconds nonstop. I was concerned because even though I know they are scams, they appear to be official messages coming through the system settings. I get about twenty different messages. I tried your solution but each time I choose to Deny System Alert, everything freezes up. I have to force quit Safari and try again but the same thing happens. For reference, I have never subscribed to either McAfee or Norton despite the messages that my subscription expired. I do use Malwarebytes which was recommended by Apple and it shows no sign of any problem.
I had been attempting to Deny the notifications and the browser kept freezing. This time I removed them following John's diagram below. Hopefully the problem will now be solved. It had just started a few days ago out of nowhere and was driving me nuts.
These complaints became so common I distilled everthing into the following User Tip:
It's a scam; ignore it. You likely picked this up from a website you visited or the current website you're on.
Please read through the advice posted by John Galt above, especially the part regarding Safari Settings.
Virus alert
