“System is Infected”, the headache notification for some Xbox users

Before you read on, please rest assured that this is all harmless. I am already clarifying this in case you find it useful not to continue reading the text. If, on the contrary, you want to understand why this notification is due and how you can save it or just know what it can affect you, keep reading because it is certainly interesting.

First, give yourself an overview of what happened. In Reddit there is a thread that as of this writing is already racking up over 300 replies and growing. The trigger was a capture where a user claims to be suffering from a constant notification placed on a tile (square) of the console. So far, everything seems to indicate that we are facing something serious

Xbox Edge Tip: Don’t turn on notifications

However, what happened is something very simple, so I wanted to explain it because it is possible that users who are less experienced with the console sometimes suffer from something similar. We can rule out that the Xbox One or Xbox Series has some kind of virus or is infected. To date, there is no known Trojan horse or malware for the operating system used by Microsoft consoles, which is essentially a modification of Windows 10.

What happens is that this person at one point visited a website with notifications and at the time, Edge Html allowed them in the console. The new version of Microsoft Edge shows them to you in a separate tile. For those who still do not understand what I’m talking about, you can take the test by going to Generation Xbox from your console and it will pass our modal (small window) which indicates if you want us to notify you by notification when a new content is published. You give it and in the next news that we publish, you will have this notice.

It works almost like a mobile, but it’s less intrusive. It also happens that if you leave the Xbox without activity for a while, it can highlight them. So here what happened is the user visited one of those sites that leave you unethical notifications for you to download garbage to your PC, and they skip . Nothing more.