What does this McAfee popup mean?

[LAS14]

Why do I get popups purporting to be from McAfee? I don't use McAfee. How does it make a popup on my desktop? It says stuff that sounds like it's running. "Issues found" "Online threat detected". If it were an e-mail I'd hover over the "from" to see if it was a gobbledy gook address. How do I know whether or not this is even really McAfee?

[Lovie777]

1. I'm getting the same......................

[LAS14]

2. As far as you know, do you have McAfee installed? nt

[brush]

3. I'm getting them too but my I Mac is a recent...

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perchase of a refurbished Mac that I haven't installed virus protection on. I think it's an attempt to get me to but their virus protection packet.

I had Norton before on my previous computer which has more reasonable prices.

[CloudWatcher]

10. It's bogus

It's bogus, either a bad (or compromised) web site or you've got some malware on your machine.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Your browser may be infected with malware

which masquerades as McAfee, trying to get you to go to a web site so it can download more malware.

You might try using Trend Micros free online scanning tool.

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/forHome/products/housecall.html

[doc03]

5. I get then too and never had McAfee. I don't know if it McAfee

or who but somehow it's a trick you into sending money. I get e-mails saying Comcast charged me a couple hundred dollars
but I check with Comcast and the credit card and there are no charges. It's to trick you into giving whoever it is your card number.

[LAS14]

6. E-mails I understand. But how does an unauthorized entity create popups? nt

[doc03]

7. Tuesday I went to the skin doctor, she took a biopsy. Today on Facebook there

are links to information on skin cancer, how did that happen? A couple months ago a doctor prescribed Flo-max
I have been getting links on prostate cancer on Facebook since then. I never posted anything about either one, it has
to becoming from the doctor, hospital, pharmacy or my phone is listening in to my conversations off line.

[CloudWatcher]

9. search?

You didn't post, but did you search? Google shares. I switched to Duck-duck-go and have gotten much fewer targeted ads like that.

Extremely unlikely it's coming from your doctor/pharmacy/hospital or that your phone is listening to you talking

[CloudWatcher]

8. Fraud

First suspect is just bogus web pages trying to suck you into giving them your credit card info.
Quit your browser and see if the popup windows are still there. Try not to use sketchy web sites,
and ad-blockers can help too.

Second suspect is malware that's installed on your computer. Suggest you install & run a good
malware program (not that popup!).

[brush]

11. Would you recommend Norton?

[CloudWatcher]

12. good question ...

Not sure I'd call it a recommendation, but I've used free scanners from malwarebytes and avast. Didn't really like either. If I remember correctly they were too difficult to ignore/delete after running.

https://www.malwarebytes.com
https://www.avast.com

[Maraya1969]

13. I have CCleaner. Supposedly it cleans out the malware but I am having the

same problem. I also get AVG popping up all the time so I went to Revo-Uninstaller and removed AVG and there was a whole host of stuff they stuck on my computer. I thought Windows defender would protect me so I don't think I need another malware program. Is this a good idea?