Comeonmac.com ‘Updates Recommended’ scam – how to remove?

Comeonmac.com sudden alerts you have encountered in your browser recently are related to distribution of many scary notifications through many popular browsers. The aim of such pop-ups is to infect your Mac with a lot of other totally useless utilities, most likely fairly classified as adware, browser hijackers, fake system optimization tools and other potentially unwanted applications you definitely do not want. Furthermore, installing these programs which might be suggested by comeonmac.com pop-ups typically harms your computer in general, both its hardware and software components.

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How does your browser work when comeonmac.com pop-ups are enabled in it?

Actually, once you encounter the multitude of comeonmac.com pop-ups telling you that your computer requires some important updates or downloads, it is already infected with adware. So, it is quite likely that at this very point it will be functioning not as it should – extremely slow, full of other strange pop-ups and advertisements that will keep bombarding your screen. Speaking about comeonmac.com pop-ups, they might seem legitimate to you, but this is from the first glance only. The message conveyed by it has the intention to make you believe your system requires some additional program components. In fact, if you give your consent to do what the alert tells you to do, you may end up installing additional junk software.

The quotation from that misleading pop-up by comeonmac.com domain is as follows:

comeonmac.com says:
Updates Recommended: It is recommended that you install the latest version of Flash.

You ought to be aware of the truth that this misleading alert from comeonmac.com is not only fake but malicious. If you use the latest version of Mac OS High Sierra software, you do not need any additional updates to be installed. Yet, if you trust this pop-up, you may end up to see your system absolutely out of order due to so many additional useless programs installed through these faulty alerts. So, be very careful!

Channels through which comeonmac.com pop-ups become enabled in your browser.

It is a common practice for adware and related pop-up windows to penetrate into browsers using the software installation method called ‘bundling’. There are certain free programs which may be downloaded over various freeware download resources absolutely at no cost for you. As a price for downloading this free software, its installer may additionally contain other programs suggested to be installed by default. Hence, the installer of certain free application may also be interconnected with installers of other unwanted utilities, such as adware, browser hijackers, etc. If you ever deal with such cost-free applications, make sure you always select the option of a custom (advanced) installation to prevent any additional software from entering your system. Here is the screenshot which shows you how to decline installation of additional software while installing free programs:

Declining additional applications during installation of free software — The image above shows declining installation of additional applications during installation of free software

Whenever people fail to be careful as described above, then end up installing plenty of other junk utilities which they do not need at all. In a hurry while installing those free programs, they may blindly click on Next or I agree buttons, without understanding much what they agree with.

Another reason why comeonmac.com pop-ups and associated adware got injected into your system is because of poorly updated databases of your available anti-virus software. You may have some security tool enabled, however, due to its outdated databases this software could miss certain malware intrusion attacks and thus permit comeonmac.com pop-ups to become the part of your browser. If this is so, it’s time for you to reconsider your existing anti-malware and rather give preference to some other program which definitely can protect your system. To fix this particular issue of comeonmac.com pop-ups, please follow this removal tutorial below.