Mcafee popup scam

This tiny pop up keeps coming up.

Its a scam if it was real I'd be able to find it in my computer.


Any help would be great I'm at a total loss?


Thanks David





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Hi Lobby444,
I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 3 year Windows Insider MVP here to help.

The "sponsor" at the bottom indicates it is an adware. Please run the tools specified in this guide:

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-popups-fro...

Disclaimer:
This is a non-Microsoft website which would provide accurate and safe information. Watch out for ads on the site which are frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). There is no need to buy paid products to fix your computers as they do more harm than good sometimes.
Sumit

Always include PC Specs, Make and Model of the device. Ensure all the latest quality updates have been installed. It may take multiple replies to reach a satisfactory answer.

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Hi Samit

Thanks for trying but the answer you gave is for an android phone.

I have a surface pro running windows 10.

I have been searching and tried 2 malware scans but they found nothing.

micro safety scanner and Norton my anti virus.

Got a new popup today same company.

Any further advice would be good if you can think of something .

Thank David

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Thanks and apologies David. Looks like I need to see more closely.

Let us go step by step.


First, tell us if Adwcleaner finds something:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/

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Hello Sumit

Thanks for replying I run that program last night then did not have any more popups.

 Been using the comp for the last couple of hours and all is going good so far.

So thanks very much for your advice .

Dave

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Awesome, thank you for letting us know!
Sumit

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G'day Sumit

All been good until few days ago and its come back.

I've run that program a few times but has not removed the virus.

Wondering if you have any other suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

Dave 

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Hi Dave,
Just wondering if you have found a solution for this. 
I'm having the same problem.

Cheers

Kerrie

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Hello Kerrie

No it still happening, tried some ad blockers they didn't work even contact the adblockers by email  but there not interested in replying. 

Ccleaner doesn't do anything either.

I'll keep searching if I find a solution I'll let you know.

Good luck 

Dave

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Here it is, six months later, and I just now picked up this adware/malwalre/trojan or whatever it is, also. Mine is a Windows 10 - 64 bit PC.  Malwarebytes, which I've always depended on, does not detect it.  I'm not sure what else to do, but these McAfee phony-baloney pop-up ads are driving me up the wall, here. It's exactly the same as Lobby4444's pictured pop-ups.  

What has me curious, is, once 'Sumit' helped you, Lobby4444, (And I realize he's an "independent advisor", but still!), and you thought the problem was gone - then it came back only a couple of weeks later, why is it that Sumit never responded at that point? That, to me, shows a lack of proper customer support on Microsoft's part, or at very least:  "a faulty cog in the Microsoft support system/machine".  It's as if to say, once the person thinks everything's OK, whatever further concerns or added information on that question/problem, is no longer valid, nor of any concern(?)  If that's the case, why don't they "close" the question so that something like this does not occur? (An unanswered problem never gets solved.) Seems pretty basic to me. Do I need to start a new question to try and get an answer for this now?

I'm now the third person with this problem, mine just started up; but I feel sorry for both Lobby4444 and Kerrie, if they have had to put up with this thing for four to six months without any foreseeable hope for an answer! Any help from "anybody" would be appreciated.  Thanks.

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See if it's a push notification. Copy/Paste (and go to) the following into the Edge Address bar:

edge://settings/content/notifications

Click on the ellipsis (...) for any unfamiliar Allowed sites and either Block or Remove them.

Close down Edge and sign out/in to see if anything changes.

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