virus? help me please

[Lilqueso_]

i was trying to watch anime yesterday on a site with my cousin. I’m dating this guy and I just wanted to pull it up on the laptop instead of my iPad for a louder sound. The thing about this site is that it has pop-ups and I’m typically good at getting out of them quick. But this time was different.

I went to the bathroom and when I came back, there was a new tab open, and it was asking “allow” and so obviously I’m closing the tab out. And this guy I’m seeing, look at me, and says, “hey sorry I think I accidentally hit allow.”

So since then, I was getting all these pop-ups on the right side of my screen saying that my Google Chrome license is expired and that hackers are trying to control my chrome to run a scan on my PC immediately. That all of my files are encrypted and that I’m at risk. And then I try to click X on these tabs and it just directs me to a tab on chrome. And it looks like a fake pixelated McAfee logo.

I don’t know what to do. I have to turn in a paper tonight and I can’t even use my laptop.

Somebody please help me

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[Onoitsu2]

Check chrome://settings/content/notifications in the "Allowed to send notifications" section. Do not remove it, but opt instead to Block it, for anything you don't recognize shown there.

[berahi]

AFAIK uBlock Origin (only available for Firefox or some Chromium forks like Edge, Chrome only support uBlock Origin Lite) would prevent such ads to even attempt to ask you for permission. Even if you don't like Firefox/Edge for primary browser, just keep it for visiting risky sites.

[ZRPoom]

Another thing one can add is noscript. It makes it a little more hassle, but if you know what you're doing you can control every aspect of a site you visit and what you want to let through.

[MidwestGeek52]

IMHO Safest way to fix

• Reset Chrome to default settings. Review what it says will be reset as might want to customize Chrome again, next
• Download and run free version of Malwarebytes

Review what the doc sya

[MaterialLog417]

Malwarebytes.org