Odd Notification - Virus? Malware?

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Phil Ward

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Jan 8, 2024, 2:49:44 PM1/8/24
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Evening all,

I followed an innocent looking web link earlier today that opened an unexpectedly malignant looking page that I quickly closed. But since then I’ve been getting the pictured notification (the one at the top) popping up every few minutes. A Malwarebytes (the free version) scan reports nothing suspicious, but clearly something has snuck in somewhere. Any thoughts anybody? I’ve not yet re-started the Mac.

Cheers
Phil


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Sam - MacAmbulance

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Jan 8, 2024, 4:02:32 PM1/8/24
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It’s a desktop notification from a website.

In Safari go to the Safari menu > Settings > Websites > Notifications > delete or disallow and websites which you don’t recognise 

Chrome has a similar setting, look for Notifications
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On 8 Jan 2024, at 19:50, 'Phil Ward' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Evening all,

I followed an innocent looking web link earlier today that opened an unexpectedly malignant looking page that I quickly closed. But since then I’ve been getting the pictured notification (the one at the top) popping up every few minutes. A Malwarebytes (the free version) scan reports nothing suspicious, but clearly something has snuck in somewhere. Any thoughts anybody? I’ve not yet re-started the Mac.

Cheers
Phil

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Phil Ward

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Jan 9, 2024, 3:10:39 AM1/9/24
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Thanks Sam!

Phi

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