Mcafee virus spam on android

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Zippee

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13,544 posts

240 months

Wednesday 16th August 2023
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My wife has inadvertently picked up a spam fishing pop up saying her phone is infected with a virus. She obviously knows not to press it but how on earth do you get rid? She has completely cleared all caches but still it keeps coming up.

Is there an easy to use eejit guide to help? This is a screenshot of what she keeps getting

deckster

9,631 posts

261 months

Wednesday 16th August 2023
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These are normally notifications that she might have inadvertently enabled. Click the three vertical dots, then Settings, Notifications, Notification Categories. That will give a list of all the websites that are allowed to send notifications, check all of those and disable any you don't recognise or don't want. There's a good chance that will sort things.

Fore Left

1,484 posts

188 months

Wednesday 16th August 2023
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If it's a Samsung try Settings / Battery & Device Care / Protection and turn it off.