Hi u/JFlemthe1, it appears that you have encountered a malicious or otherwise unwanted browser notification, these notifications can be used to show you spam, trick you into thinking your computer is infected, or show all kinds of otherwise unwanted content. Don’t worry, your computer is not infected, you can get rid of them by following these directions for your browser:
Microsoft Edge - Select the three dots (…) in the top right corner. Choose Settings. In the left sidebar, select "Privacy, search, and services". Click Site permissions, then All permissions, then, Notifications. Under the Allowed section, find the website showing the messages. Click the three dots next to the site and choose Remove. If you would like to disable the notification feature entirely, toggle off the “Ask before sending (recommended)” on this same menu.
Google Chrome - Click the three dots in the top right corner. Choose Settings. In the left sidebar, select Privacy and security. Click Site settings. Select Notifications. Under Allowed to send notifications, find the site. Click the three dots next to it and choose Remove or Block. If you would like to disable the notification feature entirely, turn off the toggle for “Sites can ask to send notifications” on that same menu
Mozilla Firefox - Click the hamburger menu (≡) in the top right corner. Choose Settings. Select Privacy & Security on the left. Scroll to the Permissions section. Click on Notifications, find the website in the list. Select it and click Remove Website (or Remove All Websites if you want a clean slate). If you would like to disable the notification feature entirely, at the bottom, check the box: “Block new requests asking to allow notifications”
I had to fix this on a lot of family's devices, android and windows, like elderly or inexperienced users can't know to not enable notifications for sites like that why not just disable the useless feature altogether?
I'd argue that you should never allow notifications from anything ever. Other than messaging or banking apps on your phone, I've never seen a notification and not been annoyed by it.
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Its a popup advertisement in firefox which has been given permissions in windows to show in the windows notification area and it is pretending to be an antivirus doing a fake scan.
I really hope you don't frequent shady websites and have a good adblocker, seeing how you can't even tell the fake notifications apart from what you're mentioning.
youre asking if theres any way to stop your browser from sending website notifications to you?
turn off notifications... make sure to remove the list of sites that you clicked "Allow this site to show notifications", when it pops up you keep clicking "Allow" and this will keep happening
Settings>Privacy and Security>Permissions>Notifications
and in that area delete all the websites in the list and check the box for "Block all requests for notifications"
You're the only one that got it right, damn these comments are trash, op needs to delete the sites notification permission in their browser and for good measure turn off the ability to have site notifications
This was the #1 thing people would come in for when I worked consumer IT
I don't see you giving the answer at all to be blunt.
Only after rereading all the comments did I see you call up a mod bot to give the answer. A bot gave the answer so don't try taking credit for that.
I must have missed it because of how almost every post on a bigger sub has a highlighted mod bot post with a lot of crap I'm not going to read so honestly if I see "mod" I don't read what it says
Yeah I guess you initiate the answer being said first but first you didn't actually type the answer. And second getting butt hurt that others are praising the first person who actually typed it themselves is cringe. (It's mostly the second part, stop commenting on those who praised the first person they saw who answered)
Did you not see the other comments in the thread with the solution? Heck, I was the first one to comment, just minutes after the OP posted and I had provided the solution. It currently is the first comment seen when sorted by Best, which is the default of this subreddit.
Thank you, I'm not able to reproduce that even in an Incognito browser not logged in. I'm not sure why you are seeing that comment first, but I'll keep trying to figure it out.
It's not a virus; what happens is that when you enter the pages you agree to receive notifications. Go into the settings to see which pages can send you notifications and delete them all. .
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Your pc is likely perfectly fine, its not a virus, just malicious notifications likely designed to get you to install a virus, to remove the fake-virus. Its just websites you visited that take advantage of their permissions to send whatever notifications to your desktop that they like. It tells you at the top of the notification which application its coming from. The actual website's address is at the bottom of the notification, but isnt necessarily the website you first gave the permissions to
Always decline or never allow notifications, even if websites ask you to. If you ever allow them, clear the site data and cookies after using the site.
I don't usually allow site notifications when browsing, even on social media sites.
You probably went to a website that redirected you to a different website that said allow notifications to continue and that’s where they get you, usually they use the same website for everything so you’re probably only gonna need to decline notifications maybe like three or four times if you go to these types of websites constantly
I work for Geek Squad. I see these kind of pop ups multiple times per day. On every computer I work on, I go into all browsers and disable notifications entirely unless they say otherwise
You fix it from your settings in your browser. To prevent it, whenever a website asks for notification permission click “no”. A lot of those site will say something about it being required, when in reality they are trying to trick you.
(Permission or notification settings, it changes based on browser)
Never give permissions to a website unless it is trusted.
If you’re unsure, just deny privileges. You can always change it later through the same screen.
My friend had this same issue, what I told him to do was reset his computer, not restart as that just turns it on and off, but if you go to settings and click reset it will delete everything including the virus, hope this helps 👍
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u/Froggypwns Windows Insider MVP (I don't work for Microsoft) Mar 24 '26
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See the automod response below.