Windows notification spam

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Windows notification spam

John Acott 0

I am using an Acer Aspire laptop running Windows 11.

The computer showed several notifications saying it is infected by a virus. "Your Computer Is Infected... Eliminate possible threats now..." "PC Is At Risk... Click Here To Renew Subscription" etc.

I have run a full virus scan using the built in Windows virus scanner, No problems reported. Therefore I believe these messages are bogus - but where are they coming from?

In Windows settings, "Notifications and actions" says I am getting notifications from "adagurous,com (via Microsoft Edge)". I can find no such app on my computer. I have also searched extensions and apps in Microsoft Edge and could find nothing there.

Can you tell me how to eliminate this adagurous.com component from my computer? Thank you.

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Anonymous

Hi @John Acott,

I'm not sure if you have made any operation to subscribe to this notification. You can simply refer to this document about how to block the notification for specific website:

In Edge, go to Settings and more in the upper right corner of your browser window.
Select Settings > Cookies and site permissions and select Notifications. Under Block, add this stie to list.

For more details about this setting, please refer to: Manage website notifications in Microsoft Edge

Best regards,

Xudong Peng

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John Acott 0 Reputation points

2023-06-16T09:13:45.15+00:00

Thank you for your response. My concern is where this notification is coming from. I realise I can block it which will stop it from appearing. However the component on my computer (that is, "adagurous,com (via Microsoft Edge)") which is generating this notification would still be there if I blocked it. My question is how do I eliminate this component from my computer? If you could help with that, it would be much appreciated.
Anonymous

2023-06-19T08:54:26.2666667+00:00

Hi @John Acott,

In windows 11, you should disable notifications via this setting, Search Notifications & actions in settings, and you can disable it:

In addition, I added windows related tags, hope that the corresponding experts can provide more help.
John Acott 0 Reputation points

2023-06-20T10:53:33.7966667+00:00

Thank you for that. However my concern is to eliminate whatever is generating the notification on my computer. Disabling the notification only removes the symptom, but the root cause if still there. So my question is... how do I eliminate whatever is generating this "adagurous,com (via Microsoft Edge)" notification? Thank you for your help on this.
Anonymous

2023-06-21T02:29:20.2533333+00:00

Hi @John Acott,

As mentioned in my answer, if you want to disable the notification from special site, you can add this site to block list. Something like this:

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