Macosx-update.com pop up notifications

[Mickey76]

Just today, Feb-10-2024 I visited a site for weather data (url not noted).  Shortly after that I started getting this pop-up (see image) in the notifications (upper right corner of screen).  I did not download any software, data sets or images.   Any solutions?

[AdvancedSetup]

Please try restarting your computer and see if that eliminates the issue or not

 

[alvarnell]

Open Safari Preferrences->Websites->Notifications and Remove any website that you don't need to receive notifications from.

[treed]

You somehow landed on the macosx-update[dot]com website and were tricked into giving notification permissions to that site. Removing those notification permissions, as Al mentioned, is the solution. You may also wish to consider unchecking the box titled "Allow websites to ask for permission to send notifications" in the same preferences panel Al referred you to, to prevent this from happening again in the future.

Note that your computer is not, in fact, infected. The notification from that website is attempting to scare you into downloading something you shouldn't download.

[Mickey76]

On 2/10/2024 at 9:33 PM, AdvancedSetup said:

Please try restarting your computer and see if that eliminates the issue or not

 

Thank you for the prompt response, issue is resolved.