Fake Antivirus being used to sell real McAfee
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2024
- Fake antivirus popups are now being used to promote real Norton and McAfee products. Promoted through browser notifications they can now show up on your lock screen and make using your PC impossible. Get Guardio for free: guard.io/pcsecurity (sponsor)
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That's funny. How long until they become the embodiment of "You have become the very thing you swore to destroy"?
Is it just me or does he find every single bad program on the internet? 😭
Scams are suddenly converging from illegitimate scams to legitimate scam
I had a client who got taken by this scam. He got McAfee AND a backdoor with remote (support) of his laptop. They would lock out his access with "Please wait... Updating" overlay. He identified that the mouse was still active and the only thing he could do was a force shutdown.
What's worse, this browser(web service even) to system notification hook is being used largely as Microsoft intended.. It's about advertisementing first and the interests of the users last.
Some say McAfee never died...
I personally see no reason why I’d ever need notifications from a website. I rarely ever even turn on notifications on apps on my phone
McAfee always seems shady to me.
Alphabet had been accepting ad money from such bad actors and for so long that for me now, ANY company loose reputation when it advertise on Alphabet's services. Hopefully at some point legit companies will become aware that they loose reputation advertising on Alphabet.
My Mcafee just expired today. Should I renew it?
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This is not only issue with desktop, it plagues android devices as well. First time I ran into this was few months ago when office worker came to me with company phone complaining about viruses. In reality it was just chrome spamming with notifications. Maybe Alphabet should focus more energy how to deal with this kind of issue instead of trying to disable adblockers.
Despite having bought my windows license multiple times because when I bought the devices I bought I was never asked if wanted another OS, I still consider the biggest waste of money I ever had to withstand was last time when I bought a laptop and unknowingly a 1-year McAfee subscription.
not only edge sadly, chrome too have this feature.
I know this thing since some years. I got some fake McAfee ads on a VM, I clicked buy now and I got in the real McAfee purchase page.
what a wonderful video, keep up the good work man love the content as always
I subscribed to Guardio after seeing it on your channel and I am impressed with the service. It just works and I don't notice any impact on my system, plus it doesn't continually announce itself. The one criticism is I get regular emails from them asking me to change from monthly to yearly, the incentive is to save money. It does not make sense to me as it is charged in USD and I pay in AUD which fluctuates and is currently weak against the USD, currently around AUD 0.64 against USD 1.00. It makes it one of the more costly subscriptions for us in Oz.
I can already hear Enderman talking about browser service workers 🤣
This happened to one of my friend 4 days ago. When I went to help him I saw that he already had an active subscription for McAfee with 10months left. Still the pop-ups redirected to buy another subscription. Just because he only had Edge, I knew that he might have gone to some shady sites and that caused him this. I fixed the notification issue, and above all that I UNINSTALLED McAfee from his PC 😆. Told him not to install or buy any other Antivirus, cause nowadays Windows Defender is more than enough for a normal user.
Love your content, would you minds doing a video on parenteral controls and filter with antivirus software.