There is a known scam involving Microsoft Edge where users are tricked into believing they’ve been hacked. This scam often uses malicious pop-ups or notifications claiming that your computer is compromised, urging you to take immediate action. These alerts appear legitimate, but they are designed to deceive and potentially lead you to harmful sites or extract money from you. Clear your browser’s cache and cookies and run a full system scan with your antivirus software to address this. Avoid clicking on any suspicious links or calling any provided phone numbers.
The cure is to go into your settings, which are below (More Tools). It says (Settings) In the drop-down on the left side of the screen, you will find (Cookies and site permissions)
Under (Recent activity), Instead of deleting all of your cookies, go into the offending cookie and Block everything. If this needs to be clarified, call a good service person.