Don’t fall for this phishing scam
How To Stop Fake Virus Notifications on Mac OS
4 min readMar 22, 2023
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)
