I have an issue

[trail sonnet]

When I open a website I get redirected to another website saying my McAfee susbscription expired but idk if it's real or not because I never paid for any antivirus

[ocean jungle]

Fake

Virus

[turbid jungle]

malware infected your pc is, but this one quite easy to get rid off

[trail sonnet]

how

[turbid jungle]

malwarebytes.

[trail sonnet]

what is that?

[turbid jungle]

a malware

antimalware

[trail sonnet]

how do I get rid of that?

[turbid jungle]

with malwarebyte

[trail sonnet]

how do I get that thing?

[ocean jungle]

You have malware

[golden canyon]

Having taking a look at the address bar this appears to be a fake website

Stealing your credit card information

[ocean jungle]

If he has one

[trail sonnet]

don't even have credit card

[golden canyon]

So I suggest not to enter your credit card CVV and billing address.

[ocean jungle]

He doesn't have one

[golden canyon]

And you can check if Microsoft Defender is turned on, in most cases your computer won't be infected by viruses like this if turned on

[trail sonnet]

so it's just a pop up fake add?

[ocean jungle]

Yes

[trail sonnet]

oh thank god

I was so scared bro

[golden canyon]

Have you granted consent to the website before? Like asking you to allow automatically showing pop-ups

[trail sonnet]

I don't remember it's a well known website to check values of a game

[golden canyon]

You can check permission grants in browser's Settings page, by finding Website settings"

[trail sonnet]

I'll check rn

[golden canyon]

Most of the websites offering pirate software also have fake links

[trail sonnet]

I was so scared because I don't really do anything else in my pc than play video games and watch netflix

[ocean jungle]

Then how did you stumble upon this?

[golden canyon]

Please go to about://settings/content/popups

So, please go to this URI

And see if you have granted any websites permission to pop-up tabs automatically

[trail sonnet]

I was playing a game and wanted to check the value of some stuff I had then I went to a common I would say the most common website to check the game's values on and this popped up

[trail sonnet]

ok

[trail sonnet]

that option doesn't appear

[ocean jungle]

Must've clicked on a sponsored website

[trail sonnet]

do I go to the website or from settings

[golden canyon]

Enter this in address bar should be working

[trail sonnet]

ok

[golden canyon]

Or you can check it yourself by going to Edge's Settings

[trail sonnet]

I use chrome btw

[golden canyon]

This is okay. So did it automatically popped up?

[trail sonnet]

yes

but just when I'm in that website

[golden canyon]

Or just redirect you to another website within the same tab?

[trail sonnet]

yes

like all changed but in the same tab the name also changes

[golden canyon]

This should be the way that any websites can do

So no need to worry about it.

[trail sonnet]

so it's the website?

[golden canyon]

Mostly it's the behaviour of just that website

[trail sonnet]

I'm so confused rn like can websites just do that if they want or?

[golden canyon]

Based on your settings shown in the screenshot that weird website is not allowed to make any pop-up tabs until you clicked on something

[golden canyon]

Yes

[trail sonnet]

dang bro tysm I almost had a heart attack

so what do I do?

[golden canyon]

I usually click on links sent from GovDelivery, a service mainly used by US government officials to publish service alerts. And I click on the GovDelivery link it automatically redirects me to another website after a dozens of seconds passed

I suggest you to leave the website or use an incognito window for browsing

[trail sonnet]

so is that like a way to verify if a link or website is safe?

[trail sonnet]

ok

[golden canyon]

Any websites can redirect you to another website whenever they want to do so. But the only exception is, that websites can not make automatic redirects too many times, or the browser will block it.

[golden canyon]

No this is what I do for checking with my subscription

And I'll leave this channel now, going back to the chat channel in 1 minute...

[trail sonnet]

ok

last question

is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening? or what would you recommend me?

[ocean jungle]

Look carefully before you click on a Google search result

[trail sonnet]

Ok

[ocean jungle]

Things to look out for are if the result is sponsored and if the domain name(the thing after www.) Makes sense

[trail sonnet]

sponsored are always fake right?

or more likely to be fake

[ocean jungle]

In most cases

[trail sonnet]

ok thank you everyone who helped me

appreciate it a lot

[ocean jungle]

Yro'ue Welcome