Looks Like I'm Infected.

antspants said:

“Your important data on risk”
“Some error was found”

I see time was spent on the English, by whoever created this…
This has to be simple adware and I would assume you have zero viruses. You didn’t click on “Secure now” or “Fix error” did you?

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Definitely and from an Indian domain .co.in

Anytime you see something similar to the first posts image, it is almost always browser notifications. These are not actual infections, but scareware.

Malwarebytes has a good write up here:


Always easy to solve.

Turn off notifications from within your browser and windows itself.


You can turn off the notifications for just edge, chrome, whatever browser you use.

As well as within chrome and edge:

Chrome:


Edge:

Great suggestions. I’m getting an education here. Hat-tip to echo2446 for post #17. Here’s what I saw at edge://settings/privacy/sitePermissions/allPermissions/notifications

It’s the last line so I deleted only that allowance by clicking the three dots to the right and delete. That got rid of it from Windows Settings/System/Notifications. The offending notification line is no longer seen. I’d like to assure myself that whatever (website?) added that notification is also gone from Edge History or anywhere. I took a look at:
Edge Settings > Privacy > Site permissions > All permissions
It looks like these are set to defaults, in most cases “Ask First” or “Blocked.” Those that are allowed are I think are pretty normal or default. Take a look at the attached pdf for what's seen there just in case I’m wrong.
I also went into disk cleanup and deleted temporary internet files.
Under Edge/Privacy…/Clear browsing data,.. I deleted Browsing History, download history, cookies and other site data, cashed images and files, site permissions, all for the past 24 hours since that’s when this happened.
I also re-ran the latest Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool.
I like Stigg’s idea in post #8 of using restore point, but I’d rather not be that draconian provided these few manual steps result in reasonable confidence that there is nothing lingering in my system.

Anything else I should do?

Tweakit said:

Great suggestions. I’m getting an education here. Hat-tip to echo2446 for post #17. Here’s what I saw at edge://settings/privacy/sitePermissions/allPermissions/notifications
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It’s the last line so I deleted only that allowance by clicking the three dots to the right and delete. That got rid of it from Windows Settings/System/Notifications. The offending notification line is no longer seen. I’d like to assure myself that whatever (website?) added that notification is also gone from Edge History or anywhere. I took a look at:
Edge Settings > Privacy > Site permissions > All permissions
It looks like these are set to defaults, in most cases “Ask First” or “Blocked.” Those that are allowed are I think are pretty normal or default. Take a look at the attached pdf for what's seen there just in case I’m wrong.
I also went into disk cleanup and deleted temporary internet files.
Under Edge/Privacy…/Clear browsing data,.. I deleted Browsing History, download history, cookies and other site data, cashed images and files, site permissions, all for the past 24 hours since that’s when this happened.
I also re-ran the latest Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool.
I like Stigg’s idea of using restore point, but I’d rather not be that draconian provided these few manual steps result in reasonable confidence that there is nothing lingering in my system.

Anything else I should do?

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Sounds good to me. I wouldn't bother with a restore point. If you go into the site settings and remove any websites you don't recognize that should be enough, however I would just keep notifications disabled. Check your extensions etc.

If you really want to be sure you can reset the whole browser.

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