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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1948866" data-attributes="member: 190607">I can't answer your question.&nbsp; I CAN tell you that the answer is almost never that your Macintosh is insecure or that it has malware.&nbsp; If you've followed the discussion, you've picked up that Apple really goes out of its way to secure the Macintosh.&nbsp; Mac-Forums has, literally, hundreds of thousands of subscribers.&nbsp; Look through all the posts.&nbsp; How many of them are complaining (legitimately, not just blind paranoia) of having been hacked or having been devastated by malware?&nbsp; I haven't found any.Modern Web browsers have all of their communications encrypted from end to end.&nbsp; (That's what the &quot;https&quot;, versus the old &quot;http&quot;, means at the begining of recent Web addresses.)&nbsp; Bad guys aren't intercepting and stealing your Web communications, even when you use public networks, such as in a coffee shop.I think that you almost certainly delt with a sketchy vendor of some type, and that's where things went wrong.&nbsp; Most scams these days involve social engineering, very few involve highly technologically minded hackers.&nbsp; Your Mac is safe.&nbsp; The people that you deal with may not be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1948866, member: 190607"] I can't answer your question. I CAN tell you that the answer is almost never that your Macintosh is insecure or that it has malware. If you've followed the discussion, you've picked up that Apple really goes out of its way to secure the Macintosh. Mac-Forums has, literally, hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Look through all the posts. How many of them are complaining (legitimately, not just blind paranoia) of having been hacked or having been devastated by malware? I haven't found any. Modern Web browsers have all of their communications encrypted from end to end. (That's what the "https", versus the old "http", means at the begining of recent Web addresses.) Bad guys aren't intercepting and stealing your Web communications, even when you use public networks, such as in a coffee shop. I think that you almost certainly delt with a sketchy vendor of some type, and that's where things went wrong. Most scams these days involve social engineering, very few involve highly technologically minded hackers. Your Mac is safe. The people that you deal with may not be. [/QUOTE]

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