Pesky McAfee critical virus warnings - How to zap?

pjcactus said:

Suddenly started to get intrusive McAfee critical virus warnings.
I don't have McFee and its not shown in Settings/Programs and Features.
Think it my have an association with Microsoft Edge.
How to get rid? Thanks.
Pete
Windows 10 Pro build:19045.3803

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Its normally a web page doing this or it may have installed and extension to your browser

It's your error. You've allowed web push notifications on some site that you visited and it's serving up those notifications.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/ne...-asking-abused

See:
https://www.mcafee.com/support/?loca...l=article-view

Copy this into the address bar in Edge and press Enter

Code:

edge://settings/content/all

Check site permissions and remove those entries that you don't want or need.

If this message is via Edge or another browser then yes, it is suspicious, you should backup your favourites then close Edge/browser, either by clicking on the X, by ctrl, alt del & then open task manager & find Edge/other browser entry & click on this & choose end task.
Then open Edge/other browser & it will offer to start afresh, you can then clean the browser’s cache, cookies & history.
If this isn’t enough you can reset Edge by Right-click on the Start button in the lower-left corner and select “Apps and Features “.
Scroll through the list until you find “Microsoft Edge”, click it, and then click on the “Advanced options” link.
Next, click on the “Reset” button.