McAfee scam

acebai

For the past 3 days I've been getting requests from McAfee to activate subscription. Closed account with them 4 years ago. Had banking info with them then. They want me to open Antivirus and renew. Looks authentic but not sure. Getting window in lower right hand corner of screen. Can't get rid of this annoying window. Any help would be appreciated.

Gjoksi

Hello.

You might be a victim of adware, so follow the steps from this article:

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/2574/

Regards.

Alexandru_BD

Hi,

Indeed, these unwanted pop-up messages seem to be from McAfee, but they’re not. The messages are ‘spoofed’ (fake) messages that pretend to be from McAfee and try to trick you into clicking one of their options. The antivirus doesn't actually detect them because these are fake web-push notifications from the browser.
There are also a few threads on this topic in the community:

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/101854/mcafee-pop-ups

https://community.bitdefender.com/en/discussion/comment/347854#Comment_347854

These fake pop-ups are so widespread that McAfee also released a Support article explaining how to deal with them:

https://www.mcafee.com/support/s/article/000001899?language=en_US

Regards