When you do, a new browser tab will open, and in it click on 'Privacy and Security' in the left-hand navigation menu. When you click on that, a menu will appear and click on the word 'Settings' found in it. If using Chrome, then do the following: Open the 'Settings' menu, which can be accessed by clicking on the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of the browser screen. By running the two scans at this point you are merely ensuring no virus has been installed so far, so a negative result is actually good here.Īfter running the scans, open your web browser. Because these messages appear as notifications from Windows instead of website pop-ups, they feel more legitimate than typical adware teasers and thus more tempting to click on, but needless to say, the intentions are the same as those more traditional versions: To get you to click on them so they can launch a virus upon your system.īecause this type of adware uses Windows notifications to convey its messages, your scans may not turn up with anything in them, but that is fine. Any idea how to fix this?Ī: This sounds like another case of Windows Push Notification malware.Īs described in recent columns on the topic, this adware uses a website's permissions prompt command (when the site you are on asks if you want to 'Block' or 'Allow' notifications from it during your visit) as a trigger to push infection-causing messages into your Windows notifications panel (also called 'push notifications'). When running an antivirus scan on my computer, it shows I have no infections though, and when I Google the URL in the notification headers the results show that it is SPAM. The header of the message reads '' and the messages tell me that my computer has viruses as well as several other statements. It appears every time I open my computer and is a real nuisance - plus embarrassing, given the content of the messages that appear in it (not to go into specifics).

Q: I have a problem with a pop-up that keeps appearing on the lower right-hand side of my Desktop screen.

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