New pop-up: “Your McAfee subscription has expired….”

More home computer self-tutoring: the tutor shares about another pop-up.

While working on the laptop today, I noticed a browser tab I didn’t recognize. I had many open and was pre-occupied, so didn’t check it right away. Eventually I did, to read as follows:

Windows Security Center: Your McAfee subscription has expired today….

I know, by now, that just because a message says it’s from Windows, doesn’t mean it is. I check the McAfee app: it says the subscription is Active. Next I check McAfee’s site report for the actual webpage:

Website Status: Unknown. We have to dig a litter deeper….

If McAfee itself doesn’t know about the expiration notice, supposedly for its own product, I figure the notice must be bogus. Next I check the web address of the pop-up:

antivirus-renewal.mcafee.com.abouttwentylettersandnumbers.trade/…..

The website appears, at first, to be from mcafee.com, but it’s actually from a .trade domain.

.trade is, apparently, a new top level domain.

Anyway, about the pop-up: I’ll just close the tab.