A McAfee antivirus pop-up that appears on your computer screen is a scam using fear and panic to make you act quickly and surrender personal information. ... Remove extensions.

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: A medical site we use and need was updated about a week ago. Tacked onto the download was McAfee Security ...

That McAfee pop-up. Thread starter Auguste_Fivaz; Start date Nov 18, ... A few flashes later I had a new popup in the lower right of my screen, ... You can manually remove extensions by navigating to: ...

If the pop-up says your McAfee subscription has expired, but you know it's current, that's a red flag. 5. ... Use trusted antivirus software to detect and remove malware on your device. 3.

According to the Sheriff's Office, the scam begins when a fake pop-up alert, appearing to be from the well-known antivirus company McAfee, appears on a potential victim's computer screen.