Stop fake McAfee pop-up URLs in Safari

If they are on the Safari page when you are visiting a website, then it is the website that is paid to display that to you, and they will make it difficult for you to bypass. Getting an Adblocker may help in some cases, but the website will do everything they can to prevent you from bypassing it so they can get paid. This is more likely to occur on the less than legitimate websites.

If you see these come up as a Notification on the upper right of your screen, then go to Safari > Settings > Websites > Notifications, and delete every website you see there. Those are sites you had previously granted permission to send you Notifications and some websites will use that opportunity for ad income.

If you see something else, please provide a screenshot and include the website link and we can also verify the same thing on our devices to make sure you have not inadvertently downloaded a browser hijacker.

Do you mean pop-up, or Notification? Since the McAfee junk is most commonly seen with fake notifications, check this:

If these are sliding in the from the top right of the screen, a site you visited has given itself permission to send push notifications. Everything you're seeing is nothing but a scam.

Open Safari's preferences (Settings). 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. Block any you don't recognize.

Then if you want, uncheck the box to the right, as shown below here.

I personally can't think of any reason why I would ever want any website to push notices to me.

Okay, that's not it. I went to the site and saw nothing.

Then I turned my ad blocker off, refreshed the page and got this complete, utter, lying nonsense.

It's a scam. 100%

Two solutions.

1. Stop using the site.
2. Install an ad blocker.

We use 1Blocker on all of our devices. It's available on the App Store and is free to use just the ad blocking feature.

And this isn't just a pop-up. It's intentionally built into the site. The owner of the site is somewhere between lowlife and scumbag.

Someone reported your post because it contained a very long URL that wasn't trustworthy, even though all it eventually did was - somehow - redirect to Wal•Mart's web site.

Of course the McAfee junk was fake. Literally, no one can tell what's on your computer through a web browser.

No, the Wal•Mart URL was not fake. The link you posted ended up there, but it was the real Wal•Mart site.