[SOLVED] Do I have a virus or is my Computer just notifying because of something else?

[OffbeatBryce]

Yesterday I was on YouTube watching videos when all of the sudden I got a pop up Windows 10 notifications that I have 3 viruses and there was two options below that to choose from 1. upgrade McAfee Subscription or 2. Don't Show This Again. I have Windows Defender which never detected anything and so I clicked option 2 to not show it again and then it opened another tab in Edge and sent me to some weird link with McAfee virus scanner in progress with a loud beeping sound with pop ups that say "WARNING!, VIRUS blah blah blah" I restarted my computer and the same thing is happening with the desktop just sitting there with nothing else open. Windows Defender finds no threats by the way and I also ran Malware Bytes which found nothing.

Just got more notifications now with a different options

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[OffbeatBryce]

I pasted some screenshots above in my first post. If more notifications I'll add them in the first post. Don't know what's going on

 

[USAFRet]

Do you have McAfee installed?

If not, this is almost surely a scam popup.
Do NOT click on anything in it.

 

[OffbeatBryce]

I do not have it installed. How do I get the pop ups to stop? I’m getting three every minute

Do you have McAfee installed?

If not, this is almost surely a scam popup.
Do NOT click on anything in it.

 

[USAFRet]

I do not have it installed. How do I get the pop ups to stop? I’m getting three every minute

Installed anything recently?

These type of popups are not a "virus" as such, but rather a scare factor to get you to click on the "Eliminate" button.
Which WILL infect your system, or at least get you to try to pay for something.

 

[OffbeatBryce]

Only thing I installed was a Windows Defender update yesterday. Everything else has been the same for a month.

Installed anything recently?

These type of popups are not a "virus" as such, but rather a scare factor to get you to click on the "Eliminate" button.
Which WILL infect your system, or at least get you to try to pay for something.

 

[USAFRet]

Only thing I installed was a Windows Defender update yesterday. Everything else has been the same for a month.

Do you use an adblocker?
uBlock, AdBlock Plus, etc...

If a scan with Defender and Malwarebytes shows nothing, this again points to that thing being just a scam popup. Designed to scare you and get you to click on "the fix".

 

[SkyNetRising]

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