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Pfishing message posts - daily and intermittently


I'm running an iMac Pro with current Apple sofware plus MalwareBytes Premium (family). A dozen or more times a day I see - only for a few seconds - various small message boxes in the upper right corner of my screen alerting me to dire security issues which I'm supposed to 'fix' by clicking on an embedded link (which I never do). About half of the messages refer to Mcafee (which I don't use/have on the Mac). I regularly run Malwarebytes scans (after updating) which report no malware on my Mac. Above is one of the few screenshots I have of an example (really hard to take because message display time is so very short). Any thoughts on what this is and how to stop this?


iMac Pro, macOS 10.14

Posted on Feb 22, 2024 8:16 AM

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Pfishing message posts - daily and intermittently

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