2 attachments. Am able to get rid of it by certain keystrokes, but it keeps coming back. Have not/will not respond to it, have not contacted Apple either, except for this question to the Community.
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Mac Pro, macOS 10.14
Understood, but why does it keep popping up? I can escape it with cmd/esc and shut down my computer, which is how I was able to take the screen shots, but it keeps reappearing. Am I just getting randomly hit while clicking links while cruising web sites?
Or is this something NOW on my computer that I need to somehow delete/get rid of?
At the top of the screen on screenshot #1 shows an app address: whale-app-afd2k.ondigitalocean.app
I did a Finder search of my computer for that file title/app address, hoping to delete it, but nothing turned up.
Also, is this something I should report to Apple?
It could be that you're going back to the same infected websites. Or, it could be that you've gotten some adware on your computer. Don't to alarmed by that. However, you might want to download the free version of Malwarebytes and run it.
There's no need for the paid version.
It certainly is spam. It's likely not much more that a pop-up on the web page you're using.
You can be sure it's a scam because a) it references a '.dll' file, which is unique to Windows systems, and b) there is NO WAY Apple would refer to your system as 'this PC'.
There may be some underlying malware installed on your system that's triggering it (e.g. redirecting you to this page even if you don't follow a specific link), but most of those are pretty easy to detect (look in Safari Preferences -> Extensions and remove anything there that you don't recognize/trust).
You can also tell from the URL that the page is hosted on digitalocean.com (a hosting platform) (if it were really Apple, it would be on apple.com, but we already know it's fake). It may be worth reporting the URL to Digital Ocean so they can take action against the scammer
https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact#abuse
Its website, so its either something getting loaded from another website you are in, or you have left the tab with the website open, and it just re-opens every time you open Safari.
Close the Tab by tapping on the (x) on the left side of the tab.
That is a scam. That is not an Apple message at all. Ignore it.
Apple would never refer to their computers as PCs.
Close the fake website.
Try a safe boot to see if the issue goes away.
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