An independent forum site for members of the Serif software community
You are not logged in. Please login or register.
Automated signup has been disabled for these forums. If you wish to register, please send an email to admin[at]punster[dot]me stating your preferred username.
Embedded images: Click on the 
Add image to post link below the message box. Your photo will be uploaded to the postimage website and then shared here via a thumbnail link. Click on the thumbnail for a larger view.
Private messages: There is no pop-up alert for new PMs on these forums, so you need to look out for the PM link (near the top right-hand corner of any forum page) becoming bold.
Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → General Discussion → Purported virus infection on this Windows 10 computer
For a while now, today, I keep getting a panel in the lower
right corner of the screen purporting to be from McAfee that
my virus protection expired on 23 June 2025 and that my
PC is affected and offering a paid subscription.
How can I stop this purported McAfee panel from
appearing please?
I did a hard sswitch off, the started up again, and I got the
view from the cavev picture so I wondered if the system had
fixed it.
But alas no, it has come back again.
I seem to remember that Windows has its own inbuilt
virus finder and remover.
Does anyone know how to start it please?
I found a website about malware that says it is a push notification (of which topic I know nothing) and gave a list of things to do, the first being to clear bowser history and cookies.
I did that and restarted the computer and thus far it seems to be cleared.
Maybe the S in Windows 10S stopped it getting more embedded.
So, hoping it has gone, but proceeding wit caution.
Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → General Discussion → Purported virus infection on this Windows 10 computer
Powered by PunBB, supported by Informer Technologies, Inc.