How to Stop McAfee Notifications/Popups on Windows Desktop?

[Tn]

Periodically McAfee Total Protection pops up an intrusive advertisement or pointless notification on our Windows desktops, interrupting our work. I attached a montage of some that I captured. I have turned off every relevant setting that I can find, and searches so far seem to indicate that these popups cannot be disabled. I consider these to be SPAM and reflective of an intrusive design philosophy that does not value a customer's time and priorities.

Does anyone know how to disable McAfee notifications/popups? I've used McAfee for many years and am due for renewal next month. If these intrusions cannot be turned off then I need to find another security solution. 

[Rajiv__s]

Hello @Tn ,

Sorry about the inconvenience these pop ups are information alerts we have a option to disable these alerts open McAfee UI click on settings>> General Settings and information alerts>> Information Alerts>> make sure the check box is unchecked and click on apply. This should disable the alerts if in case you still face any problem kindly reply to this post.

Regards,
Rajiv S

[Tn]

The "WARNING Your virus protection is expiring!" billboard popped up again yesterday while I was engaged in important work. It forced me to click "Accept risk" despite that fact that I have 7 weeks remaining on my subscription! I'm finding it difficult to entrust my security to a company that engages in such an intrusive, deceptive and threatening practice.

"Informational alerts" is definitely unchecked. Any other suggestions?

Thank you.

[Tn]

Again, the "WARNING Your virus protection is expiring!" SPAM billboard hijacked the desktop on a different Windows machine while it was in use for work. I have 7 weeks remaining on my subscription and "Informational alerts" is unchecked (photo attached). 

Is there anything I can do other than change to a different security product? If McAfee has no qualms about randomly covering a quarter of the desktop with a blue overlay and an "Accept Risk" button, what's next? Full blue screen with a "Pay Ransom" button?

[Tn]

Unbelievable, McAfee itself is behaving like a virus/ransomware. Despite the fact that I have all alert and notification settings for McAfee turned off, and regardless of the 6.5 weeks that remain on my subscription, this more threatening spam screen overlay appeared on 2 of my PCs while they were in use for work:

[Tn]

McAfee continues to interrupt our work with deceptive popups:

In this case, anyone trying to quickly dismiss the intrusion could inadvertently alter their browser!

Does McAfee offer any control over desktop popups other than this?

[Tn]

Unbelievable. Immediately after my last post McAfee SPAMMED me with this:

[Tn]

Again, despite a month remaining on my subscription, McAfee Total Spam blocked my Windows desktop with a blue screen overlay:

Is there no setting to prevent these threatening and intrusive disruptions from McAfee?

[Peacekeeper]

This is marketing group doing this when I was a Volunteer mod here we volunteers tried to get this stopped or at least turned off manually but even the managers could not get this changed.

I expect mine will start in 4 months or so as well. I am unsure if this inability to stop has changed but I do not feel it has sorry.

[Tn]

Thanks for the reply. McAfee has attacked my desktops with a couple more blue overlays that I've already posted screenshots of, and this new one today:

McAfee is just 2 small changes away from becoming ransomware: go full screen and remove the Accept Risk button. Hijacking Windows desktops in this way is the worst marketing intrusion on customers I've seen from a mainstream professional Windows software company. What's next? Random takeovers of the whole desktop for 5 minutes to demonstrate the "dangerous online threats"? 

The solution appears to require dropping the McAfee subscription and buying a reputable competitor. Does anyone have recommendations?