How do I protect myself after clicking a hacked email link on my M1 MacBook Pro?

Thinlysliced wrote:

I received an email from a contact and clicked on it. Later he told me he had been hacked and it wasnt from him. What should I do?

I am using sequoia 15.3 on an m1 macbook pro

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Put it in the trash?

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Thinlysliced wrote:

What should I do?

That all depends on what you did? Did you enter your name and password into some link that was opened from the e-mail? Or did you bypass multiple layers of Apple's built-in malware protection and click "Install"?

If you didn't do either of those, then there's nothing to worry about.