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:<\/p>\n
Windows Security Center: Your McAfee subscription has expired today….<\/p>\n
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:<\/p>\n
Website Status: Unknown. We have to dig a litter deeper….<\/p>\n
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:<\/p>\n
antivirus-renewal.mcafee.com.abouttwentylettersandnumbers.trade\/…..<\/p>\n
The website appears, at first, to be from mcafee.com, but it’s actually from a .trade domain.<\/p>\n
.trade is, apparently, a new top level domain.<\/p>\n
Anyway, about the pop-up: I’ll just close the tab.<\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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, …<\/p>\n