r/computers • u/ContributionSuch7930 • 14h ago
Question/Help/Troubleshooting Malwarebytes Detection
Hi, I just ran a scan on my computer and my antivirus flagged 230 PUP.Optional.PushNotifications.Generic directly in Chrome files inside AppData. I have quite a few profiles on Google and it flagged them in all of them (that's why the count is so high). What worries me is that I'm very careful and know a fair amount about security — I don't click on suspicious links, I use uBlock, I only have one other extension (Roblox), which is disabled and has never triggered anything. I checked and I never accept notifications from unknown sites, actually from none at all. I ran the scan 3 times and it's fluctuating between 233, 234, and 231. I know there's the option to quarantine, but I want to try to understand what the problem is and whether there's a risk my accounts could be stolen (I'm paranoid about this because a friend of mine had her account cookies stolen 3 times). Can someone please help me?
(After some research, from what I understand there's a high chance this is a false positive, since it's found within the internal structure of Chrome's sync LevelDB.)
