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Recently my Android phone (Google Pixel 8) began to receive notifications (or messages) from the Chrome (picture is below). I see them after I swipe down from the top of the screen.

These messages claim that my memory is full (it is not) and so on - they look like fishing emails, but I don't see them in my Gmail inbox, and I don't see them in the Messages app. And of course, I prefer not to open them.

screen-with-message-headers

My questions:

  • Did anybody see this kind of messages?
  • Does it mean I have a virus on my phone?

(I'm sorry if it's a wrong place for such questions)

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    Modern web browsers have the ability to receive web notifications from sites that are not currently opened. Normally for enabling those notifications your web browser shows a dialog where you have to accept registering for notifications for that site. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notifications_API/… Commented Oct 25 at 19:25
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    Thank you, @Robert. It looks like it's the case - I've found only one site in the Chrome Settings -> Notifications -> Sites, which was allowed to send me notifications. I've disabled this site, and I don't see these messages anymore. Commented Oct 25 at 23:43
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    @HEKTO Feel free to self answer with how you disabled the notification once you confirm that it fixed the problem. Commented Oct 26 at 0:18
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    Re: "Does it mean I have a virus on my phone?" they are more likely scareware. Commented Oct 30 at 8:21
  • @MorrisonChang - I'm not sure I've resolved the problem by changing Chrome settings. May be, the culprit site just went offline or stopped to send these scareware messages. I've actually not only disabled notifications from the site www.flibusta.site - I've removed the site completely from Chrome settings. I guess, the Chrome blocks this site itself in this case. I tried to reinsert this site into settings (just for experimenting) - but couldn't find a way to do that. It's a mystery for me, how this site appeared in Chrome settings originally. Commented Nov 1 at 3:29

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