DexterFresh wrote:
nothing was downloaded I wanted to make sure that my internet traffic was truly safe
That concern really has nothing to do with computer viruses, which never have and never will affect macOS.
You asked about viruses, and that question has been answered. At this point in the second quarter of the 21st century, as well as in the decades-long history of macOS and its predecessors, concerns about viruses should be long since dead and buried, yet they persist.
One reason is explained in this passage:
It's important to understand the nature of threats that exist today, and to appreciate the fact that "anti-virus" software peddlers have been reduced to abject panic as their traditional Windows PC market suffers its inevitable decline.
Unlike Macs, viruses were a real problem with Windows PCs years ago. Today, even it has robust protections against malicious alteration (while introducing new threats... another story altogether).
Effective defenses has been recently updated to place greater attention on the more realistic, extant threats to your online activity. Social engineering schemes that exploit human weaknesses are nothing new, but they are being increasingly implemented by "AI" to exploit the soft, lucrative targets we present.
It's a target-rich environment:
etresoft wrote:
Luckily, it's far easier to fool people than the hack Apple operating systems.
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That's the real threat. Pay no attention to the imaginary ones.
Now... if you want to ask about internet traffic, you're on to something. Those horses left the stable years ago, never to be corralled again.
