Suspicion of virus

Suddenly, I got a message on my MacBook that my computer has been infected by a virus and I need to contact a Web site for my MacBook cleaned. According to me, which is a spam that I have been informed by Apple and by people who use Apple years not to bother with virus check my MacBook has been secured. Once this message appeared more or less my machine froze and I had to quit and restart - what would be the best thing to do now? Don't want to make things even worse.

It's a scam.

If you force quit Safari, and then restart with the SHIFT key which should get rid of the nuisance.

Your friends are correct. You do not want any AV installed on your Mac. It will be you didn't offer any additional protection and most like cause problems on your Mac.

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