Random notification

[Eyuayui]

Recently I was looking around for minecraft shaders and mods. After that I started getting random notifications saying that I have a virus and other leading to other websites. I haven’t clicked on any, and both malwarebytes and windows haven’t detected anything. What is happening and should I be worried?

[SpookyCitrus]

34 minutes ago, Eyuayui said:

Recently I was looking around for minecraft shaders and mods. After that I started getting random notifications saying that I have a virus and other leading to other websites. I haven’t clicked on any, and both malwarebytes and windows haven’t detected anything. What is happening and should I be worried?

Those are Pop-Up ads, they are scams most of which will try to get you download stuff and or call a "support" phone number. I'd suggest getting Adblock at getadblock.com and then don't download random minecraft mods or packs on just random sites or forums. One of the most common reasons I've had computers get infected and have to come into my shop to get cleaned up was because kids had tried downloading things like Minecraft, Minecraft Mods, Fortnite, Fortnite Hacks, Etc. onto their parents computers that can't even play games or anything and they download the wrong versions from the wrong sites and load the computer with viruses. My suggestion is to just stay with the base game or download them from Planet Minecraft if I remember correctly that's a good website that isn't really full of scams or pop-ups and they scan most published downloads for viruses.

[Eyuayui]

Yeah I know that and follow those rules, but this time I was looking for something very specific and needed to go to sketchy websites for it. Anyways, how do I know that there isn’t anything else? I looked at chrome and 2 websites had permissions to send notifications. Is it just adware or could it possibly be more?

[Eyuayui]

The two adfly ones are the ones I’m talking about.

[Eyuayui]

48 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Those are Pop-Up ads, they are scams most of which will try to get you download stuff and or call a "support" phone number. I'd suggest getting Adblock at getadblock.com and then don't download random minecraft mods or packs on just random sites or forums. One of the most common reasons I've had computers get infected and have to come into my shop to get cleaned up was because kids had tried downloading things like Minecraft, Minecraft Mods, Fortnite, Fortnite Hacks, Etc. onto their parents computers that can't even play games or anything and they download the wrong versions from the wrong sites and load the computer with viruses. My suggestion is to just stay with the base game or download them from Planet Minecraft if I remember correctly that's a good website that isn't really full of scams or pop-ups and they scan most published downloads for viruses.

That is a picture of the malwarebytes scan and the notifications

[SpookyCitrus]

It's just adware, install adwcleaner by the same people who make malwarebytes and run that also when you click on the three dots next to those where you can block them you can also remove them. They're just Chrome notifications, when you go to a website and it pops up with the little popup by the search bar that says allow and block always exit it or click block.