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Why am I receiving adware popups on my Mac?

I have a very effective program that removes adware and malware quite nicely, but now that Apple has begun using adware, they're using one that I can't remove. So now I get all these "PC is at risk" messages which if clicked on, takes one to Apple App Store where they are selling a program, a privacy ad blocker. Pretty neat trick. Using privacy ads to sell a privacy ad blocker. So, is there any way, without giving Apple another $50.00 to get this to stop?


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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Oct 21, 2023 7:40 PM

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Posted on Oct 23, 2023 11:33 AM

So I still get, over and over all the time, the "Viruses Found," "Critical Virus Alert," act. So to top it off, it doesn't work. Seems rather a scam to me...


Those are scams. However, you agreed to receive them. Stop unwanted Notifications - Apple Community describes how you did that. So don't do that.

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Oct 23, 2023 11:33 AM in response to Mr. Bacon

So I still get, over and over all the time, the "Viruses Found," "Critical Virus Alert," act. So to top it off, it doesn't work. Seems rather a scam to me...


Those are scams. However, you agreed to receive them. Stop unwanted Notifications - Apple Community describes how you did that. So don't do that.

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Oct 23, 2023 10:38 AM in response to muguy

Indeed, yet the principle is the popup takes one to the App Store, where an app is sold to block pop-ups. It is adware but is immune to the adware removal program I use. Also, I downloaded it and it doesn't block the adware that takes one to the app-store. So I still get, over and over all the time, the "Viruses Found," "Critical Virus Alert," act. So to top it off, it doesn't work. Seems rather a scam to me...

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