You'll get a notification when the scan is finished. This may take a while to complete but you can keep using your PC while it runs. Click the "Quick scan" button under "Current threats" to run a scan of your device. Prior to the Windows 10 October 2018 update, the app was called Windows Defender Security Centre, so open this if you're using an older Windows release.įrom the app's home screen, click the "Virus & threat protection" tile to open the antivirus page.
Alternatively, launch it by typing "Windows Security" into the Start menu.
You can open the Windows Security Centre from its icon in the system tray – look for a white shield. If you suspect your device has a problem, you can use the Windows Security Centre to run a virus scan which could uncover any dangerous files. Where I used the Report abuse link to say, “, which leads to this app, hijacks notifications for spam popups.Windows 10 comes with built-in antivirus protection in the form of Windows Security (previously known as Windows Defender). That page offers to take you to their Chrome web store app: Now when you go back to the main Notifications list, you should find that documentconverter.app has been removed from the list.įor good measure, I decided to go to and explicitly block its notifications: Click on Clear Data and Reset permissions: If you click on the small right-arrow next to here, you’ll see its permissions. In Chrome, go to Settings > Advanced > Site Settings > Notifications, or just put this in the address bar: You could disable all Windows 10 notifications from Chrome by pasting this into Chrome and choosing Disable:Ĭhrome://flags/#enable-native-notificationsīut what we really want to do is disable notifications from the documentconverter.app. One way to temporarily hide the popup is to click on the notification icon (with the small “2” in the first screenshot above) to open all notifications in a sidebar, click Clear all notifications, then click outside the sidebar to close it. That’s not bad in itself, but I do wonder how it makes the popup “stick”-most Windows notifications disappear after a few seconds. Oh, I get it now: Chrome is authorized to use Windows 10 native notifications.
Then today when I logged on, before I started Chrome, I saw this as a native Windows notification: So it’s definitely from documentconverter.app, but Chrome isn’t even running. From her browsing history, I see that she visited, then “Documents Converter” in the Chrome Web Store, but there are no related plugins installed in Chrome. A user reported that weird popups appear at random times in the lower right corner of her Windows 10 Enterprise desktop.
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