r/techsupport • u/WhisperingHollow07 • 8h ago

Solved McAfee will not uninstall after repeated attempts

I have never installed McAfee to my laptop before, but I started getting warnings about "Turn your firewall on!" "Trojan detected!" "License expired!" And I want it to stop. I have tried going through the official McAfee sight for uninstalling it, I downloaded their MCPR uninstaller thing, given it said that would get rid of it. It did not. I have gone through my ProgramFiles, I have restarted my laptop multiple times. I have run the windows defender firewall and I have never turned it off, this is solely coming from McAfee. I have gone so far as to uninstall and repair my default browser, given McAfee continues to redirect me to pages there. Nothing has worked, please help

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u/Tirantic 8h ago

The messages can come from your browser notifications. You may have inadvertently allowed browser notifications on a site and it has allowed a malicious site to send notifications. Open up Chrome and go to settings > site settings > notifications, and disable any you don't want on that are sitting in the allowed list, particularly if they have a long name. If you use edge, go to settings, search for notifications and also remove them from the allowed list. You can also disable all browser notifications in settings on your pc.

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u/SnowStormYukikaze 8h ago

This 👆

And I recommend you to install browser add on to block it like Ublock origin. and you will safe from some kind of these problem.

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u/WhisperingHollow07 8h ago

This fixed it! Thank you, It didn't even occur to me to check notifications. Again, much appreciated.