Don’t fall for this phishing scam
How To Stop Fake Virus Notifications on Mac OS
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In this article, you’ll learn about how Mac OS doesn’t have virusses and how to prevent the notifications that seem to indicate your Mac has a virus.
Introduction
Apparently, I recently accepted a website’s dialogue that asked for notification access. I suspect this happened while using some free services to convert YouTube videos into MP3’s and converting MOV to MP4 files.
It can be as simple as a wrong click (alongside clicking away those naggy ads that these “free” services harbour) to give a website the rights to show notifications.
And about three days ago, I started to see Notifications appear that state things like (just to give a few examples):
- Critical virus detected!
- Your computer is infected
- Viruses found(3)
Notifications are nice
Until they aren’t.. When you get notifications that you don’t expect (especially when they state something that’s untrue) you can start to feel like your system is being invaded.
It is only then, when you want to have a quick fix to prevent these spam notifications, that you’ll notice that it isn’t all that easy to find them.
Whatever you do:
DO NOT CLICK THE SPAM NOTIFICATIONS
Chances are you’ll land on a phishing website, which will not result in happy things.
Mystery Notifications
Firstly, you can’t see from the notification itself who is sending it. For example, take the notifications from this image, and try to find what origin they are coming from:
