How To Stop Being Pestered.

[derekpara]

I am being pestered every few days by emails purporting to be from McAfee Renewal Support telling me my subscription has expired and I'm eligible for McAfee renewal at a discount.
I have never used McAfee and have no intention of doing so.

I am looking for a way to block these nuisance emails. Can anyone help, please ?
I'm using Thunderbird with W10.

Cheers. D

[Buenchico]

If the sender of the emails is always using the same address to send them from, all you need to do is to invoke a Thunderbird rule to auto-delete them:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/blocking-sender

If they're using different addresses to send from, you'll need to create a filter rule whereby any email with 'McAfee' in the subject line is automatically routed to your 'Spam' folder or similar:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/organize-your-messages-using-filters

[burlyshirley]

Interesting, I have pop ups that continually come in from the right hand side of my screen from McAfee (who I have never used before) and I don't know how to stop those ! They started appearing suddenly some weeks ago. I'm so used to them now that I barely see them, but if I could get rid of them, I would. Any ideas Buenchico ?

[bednobs]

I used to get those Shirley and someone on here kindly told me how to stop them. I'll see if I can find it.

[Jonathan-Joe]

I received several these a day a while back. I just ignored them and they stopped.

[burlyshirley]

Thanks bednobs.

[bednobs]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1520299.html

[Buenchico]

When do you see the pop-ups, BS? If they're only on AB, then it's likely that they're part of the the site's own advertising, so there's nothing that you can do about them (other, possibly, to start searching Amazon for something like sexy lingerie, so that you see ads for such clothing instead of ads for McAfee!).

If you're seeing the pop-ups elsewhere though, it's likely that your PC has malware on it. (I'm assuming, of course, that you're actually using a PC, rather than a phone or tablet). Download and run AdwCleaner to zap it:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner
(There's no installation process; you simply run the downloaded file directly).

[burlyshirley]

Thank you to both Buenchico and bednobs. They appear on whatever I am looking at Buen, on my laptop. I'll let you know if I manage to get rid of them.

Jonathan, I keep thinking they'll go, but they never do !!

[burlyshirley]

Almost an hour and no pop ups, then one suddenly popped up ! I'll see how it goes and try the cleaner again if it's still not fully gone.

[woofgang]

I too am getting the Mcafee emails and they are not from McAfee. I just put them in my junk box

[derekpara]

Thanks, Chris and everyone else. Seems to be a common nuisance.

Cheers.
D

[derekpara]

Thanks, Chris and all others. Seems to be a common nuisance.
Cheers.
D

[burlyshirley]

McAfee pop ups appear to have stopped now, thank goodness !