Anyone else having problems with unwanted pop-ups!

Old Salt

Old Salt

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I am frustrated out of my mind! I have had McAfee pop ups plaguing me for the past five days. They pop up every ten minutes (or so). I can't get rid of them with a single click because there's no little x to click on, so I have to go through stage two and three of the offer to upgrade my McAfee, which I don't have. And then finally the desired x to get rid of the foolishness! All the google advice hasn't helped. Reset settings in Chrome Browser! Nope! Edge? No! My anti virus programme and my Microsoft fire wall are not interested, to them it's a legit thing and they don't respond to my efforts. Is there an IT person in this forum?
 

None here.

One thing that can happen is when you download and install some program it bundles trial versions of crapware they get paid for. The installer should have a checkbox to let you opt out, but these are often subtle or even disguised and people miss them.

Have you tried Add/Remove Programs and looked for McDoofy there?
 
Old Salt said:
I am frustrated out of my mind! I have had McAfee pop ups plaguing me for the past five days. They pop up every ten minutes (or so). I can't get rid of them with a single click because there's no little x to click on, so I have to go through stage two and three of the offer to upgrade my McAfee, which I don't have. And then finally the desired x to get rid of the foolishness! All the google advice hasn't helped. Reset settings in Chrome Browser! Nope! Edge? No! My anti virus programme and my Microsoft fire wall are not interested, to them it's a legit thing and they don't respond to my efforts. Is there an IT person in this forum?
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i'm using malwarebytes free browser guard on my chrome. it lets me choose what to let in and what not. it's cut back on the nonsense on most of the pages.
 
Old Salt said:
I am frustrated out of my mind! I have had McAfee pop ups plaguing me for the past five days. They pop up every ten minutes (or so). I can't get rid of them with a single click because there's no little x to click on, so I have to go through stage two and three of the offer to upgrade my McAfee, which I don't have. And then finally the desired x to get rid of the foolishness! All the google advice hasn't helped. Reset settings in Chrome Browser! Nope! Edge? No! My anti virus programme and my Microsoft fire wall are not interested, to them it's a legit thing and they don't respond to my efforts. Is there an IT person in this forum?
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I had more problems with McAfee pop ups than regular annoying commercials. I had used McAfee for my pop ups and for viruses. When it expired, every minute I would delete a McAfee about expiration, another would pop up in it's place. For that reason, I did not go back with McAfee.
 
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