How to Remove Fake McAfee Virus Popup Notifications

In today’s video, I’m going to show you how to remove fake McAfee virus popup notifications from your computer.

So I recently came across this issue when I was working on my Dad’s computer, and he told me about some McAfee popups he was receiving saying his subscription was expiring, and his computer was infected, and the popups were relentless, and wouldn’t go away.

After investigating the issue on his computer, I could instantly tell that the popups were fake, and suspicious. He also told me that he didn’t have McAfee installed on his computer.

I quickly realized that these notifications were not genuine, and were indeed fake pop ups from some sort of scam website.

The good news is, you can easily remove these pop ups within a matter of minutes.

*Now to get started with removing the pop ups:*
1. Open up your Google Chrome browser, and click on the 3 dots located on the top right of the browser.
2. Now click on the “Settings” option at the bottom of the menu.
3. In the search settings search field, type in “Notifications”, and click on the “Site settings” option.
4. Now on this screen, scroll down to the bottom of the screen, and click on the “Notifications” option.
5. From the “Notifications” page, scroll down to the “Allowed to send notifications” section.
6. From here, you should be able to see that multiple websites are sending you notifications, and these are what trigger the fake McAfee popups. All you’ll have to do for each of these, is to click on the 3 dots for each of them, and click on the remove website option.
7. This will now remove the notifications, and prevent the pop ups from appearing on your computer.

And it’s as easy as that, removing those fake McAfee virus popup notifications is a simple task to perform, and doesn’t require you to pay any money, or to install any software to remove them.

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[sue-anneludin]

Thank you so much Laurence! You save my laptop from being thrown violently at my wall. Those notifications were relentless and they have now disappeared. LEGEND!

[HalcyonDaze]

Dear sweet baby Jesus, you saved my bacon brother. I had mcafee popups over everything else on my screen. I'm glad you talked me through it because I couldn't even see part of what you were doing. Thank you thank you thank you. you are a life saver!

[msilydm]

Many thanks for this clear concise video. I successfully removed these fake, aggressive, intimidating, disruptive and fearful virus notifications (pop ups), on my Windows 11.
You are a star, and I can fully understand how it freaked out your Dad.

[tomcanty]

Omg....my wife click on one of those emails, what a pain.
Thanks to your video, this analog man, trapped in the digital world, removed it inside of a minute.
May space and time bend for your dreams and wishes.

[BerbyWatson]

When you showed a picture of the popup, I knew I had the right video. Thank you so much for solving an annoying, distracting problem.

[jordanvlogs]

Your video literally saved me! I was getting all kinds of false alarms about viruses, especially from McAfee in particular, which was so confusing and anxiety-inducing. After watching your video and following the directions, I was able to completely get rid of the nasty, annoying notifications. Thank you for the helpful and concise walk-through! :)

[iiguxcf]

Normally I don’t leave any comments on google, but this video saved my life absolutely, I should have watched it earlier instead of getting the stupid McAfee app and wasting my money

[charley]

Mcafee virus started to pop up on my wifes computer today. Found your tutorial and it worked right away. I found 2 notification scripits that were basically just a bunch of jumbled up characters that spelled nothing. Blocked them and immediately POP ups stopped. Thank you for the video and information.

[tjmmcd]

Thank you SO MUCH. Everything you stated worked PERFECTLY on my PC with Win 11, after I suddenly received MULTIPLE, NON-STOP (fake) McAfee ads stating my pc was infected with multiple viruses. On the last step on the 'notifications' page, under, "Allowed to send notifications" I only had FaceBook, (which I also disabled) AND something else, which DID NOT say McAfee, but something else. I didn't write down the name prior to removing it, but when I did so, the fake McAfee popups immediately CEASED. Bless you!!!

[benny_booferd]

Thank you so much for this! I accidentally got these while trying to find a textbook for college and it's been incessant for days! I appreciate your simple and easy to follow instructions.

[flash]

Thank you, worked perfectly to remove fake McAfee popup ads which had literally taken over my computer.

[richholman]

I am very grateful! Neither Norton Antivirus or Malwarebytes were getting rid of this pop up and my machine was virtually unusable. This simple fix stopped the issue immediately. Thank you!

[Young______________forever]

Oh my god I have been on hundreds of videos since yesterday and I was going crazy because of frustration and anger you saved my life 😭

[biggface]

These are the kinds of videos the world needs. Your content fits within the reason YouTube was created. Bravo.

[ptexnjy]

Thank you so much. This is short and simple. It has successfully helped me to remove these fake disturbing notifications.

[joellak]

Thank you so much! I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciates a keep-it-short-and-simple type video on how to deactivate these! Take care!

[deefee]

You're a life saver. I was able to follow this for Microsoft Edge and delete two of these ads.

[lanade]

Thank you. I accidentally got one of these pop ups while trying to download some important files, and I have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out how to solve the problem. I watched your video and the problem was solved in less than 2 minutes.

[Dreamydarkful]

I knew instantly it was fake and how it got there, but had no idea how to remove it, thank you for the easy explanation.

[jdreece]

This post here was EXACTLY what I needed to correct those annoying pesky little "freak out" messages.. Usually I would've reformatted, but this truly worked!!! Stoked!!