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McAfee phishing popup in Safari

McAfee popup stating I have 5 viruses and need to take action. I do not have Mcafee installed on my Mac mini. What gives?

Is this legit or is this fraud attempting for me to install McAfee and how did this popup occur? I just loaded the latest version of Ventura 13.2.1

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Mac mini, macOS 10.13

Posted on Feb 26, 2023 5:20 PM

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John Galt

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Feb 26, 2023 5:24 PM in response to Gfbii

It's a scam. Please read this relevant Discussion: Virus notification on MacBook Pro. - Apple Community

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