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I add sites to block to my HOSTS file. It's over 620KB now since I have added so many. I started with this one : Blocking Unwanted Connections with a Hosts File[^]
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I can block it in Chrome which seems to work. I guess that (or the hosts file) is all we can do.
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Rick York wrote: I add sites to block to my HOSTS file. It's over 620KB now since I have added so many.
Now replicate that hosts file on all of the devices that connect to your router, and you get an idea for how much better something like Pi-Hole is as a solution.
Even better, the block list is community-maintained. I think there's a dozen entries, max, I've explicitly added myself. One of them being (.|^)facebook.com$
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If you're running McAfee, uninstall it. Windows Defender is about as good as any anti-virus software.
If you're not running McAfee, install and run Malwarebytes, which is very good at removing the kind of infestation that can cause this kind of problem.
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I don't run McAfee, nor will I ever again. As far as I can tell the problem comes from other web pages, and Chrome successfully blocks them.
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I've never seen it, but I run Firefox. It's curious that it would be a McAfee pop-up. Maybe Chrome is a paid shill for them.
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Greg Utas wrote: It's curious that it would be a McAfee pop-up.
It's not McAfee, it's some random site that claims to be them; an obvious scammer.
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I've had these for months. They are certainly not from McAfee, but change sender address, title and contents at least weekly. I have to add new entries to the Thunderbird garbage list all the time.
Recently, they come as "McFe", "_Mcfe_", "//Mcfe//", "M.c.A.f.e.e" and 'From' encoded with varying fonts, for each character. The sender domain and IP address changes all the time. I have Thunderbird search for revealing text in the message body, but they change that as well all the time (and mostly, the body is a link to some site that I find no reason to trust).
No matter my efforts to keep the garbage list updated, they find new ways to avoid it almost every day. Every morning I find two or three McAfee entries in the thrash can, plus one new one in my Inbox. Adding yet another filter entry has become part of the daily morning routine.
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Check your notifications settings in your browser. This is the latest scare mechanism. My wife allows notifications from just about everybody and I go through monthly and clear out her notifications options.
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Yes, I have done that. I was more interested to know whether other people are getting the issue.
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I haven't seen these but I also run uBlock Origin and NoScript in my browser (Firefox) so I only allow scripts/ads on sites I trust like CodeProject.
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Something I probably need to investigate.
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The only "permanent" way I use is either FF with AdBlock or Brave. No desktop notifications ever allowed.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I haven't, but I've received similar texts on my phone.
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Unprotected sites frequently get hijacked (php scripts get added), and the "scanning program" may just be animated images that virus checkers don't see. In any event, you've entered the "unprotected" (site) zone.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Nope.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Thanks, I needed to know that. 
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(Standing for pkfox)
Began Round 50?  (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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STARTLED
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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You are up tomorrow - care to explain for the others?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Began -> START ED
around 50 L (Roman numeral) and the emoji is the definition. Shocked, startled, ...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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An emoji as the definition?! 
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Yep!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not by my rules Greg
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I liked it! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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