McAfee Virus alert

Everyone here is providing accurate information, it's just not common that people truly understand the world of McAfee products as it exists today, or at least that they feel it's important to realizing how and why you might receive these advertisements in the first place.

Ther following search results were found in seconds using the same DDG search engine you use and display quite clearly why you might receive these McAfee advertisements, since it's a potentially big moneymaker for the affiliate network that McAfee has long cultivated to sell their products. However, since Windows Defender became a free portion of Windows 8 and later, the pressure on sales of 3rd-party products likely has caused a significant decline.

McAfee affiliate advertising at DuckDuckGo

I won't link any of the specific results for obvious reasons, but note that one of the top hits in my case indicated a commission rate of $10/sale, so as it also stated, that's a potentially lucrative opportunity for those willing to promote these on their web offerings, or in fact via any other questionable method such as advertising popups or less reputable, even potentially malicious methods making it appear that malware is already present.

So, all I'm saying is that it's really no surprise that questionable advertising like this exists, it's simply surprising to me that nearly everyone doesn't already know that it does.

Rob

Hi Berkshire_Yorkie,

I'm Ramesh, here to answer your query at the Microsoft Community.

That looks like a sales push. If Microsoft Defender is active, that means McAfee wouldn't be running. The sales page shows the list of "viruses found," but I guess it's a generic sales webpage that shows the same content when the link is accessed from any system.

Having said that, if you don't plan to renew McAfee, you may completely uninstall McAfee. If necessary, use the MCPR tool from McAfee to uninstall the product cleanly.

https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS101...

If you'd like the system inspected for malware, you can run the Farbar scanner and share your logs on OneDrive. The Farbar scanner is an advanced tool for checking for active malware and removing it.

• Download Farbar Recovery Scan Tool (FRST64.exe) from BleepingComputer: [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/farba...](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/farbar-recovery-scan-tool/)

• Rename FRST64.exe to EnglishFRST64.exe.

• Run the program. Don't check or uncheck any options. Click "Scan".

• Upload the two logs, FRST.txt and Addition.txt, to your OneDrive and share the link here.

How-To: Share OneDrive files and folders - Microsoft Support

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/shar...

Note: If Microsoft Edge or Chrome mislabels the Farbar Scanner executable as PUA/malware, choose to keep it by tapping … in the bottom bar, choosing Keep, and then choosing Keep anyway in the dialog that appears.

Is McAfee still installed and if so uninstall it. If it isn't installed then the webpage is just sales.

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