Thank you for the correction. I forgot we were speaking about an iPhone, not a Mac.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Feb 17, 2025, at 03:11, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
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On Feb 16, 2025, at 3:21 PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
No, I was referring to malicious push notifications from a source other than Apple and unrelated to Apple.
Up until very recently, iOS didn¡¯t allow push notifications from the Web. It now has that capability if implemented by a third party app, and the user specifically gives permission for it.
The Macintosh will do push notifications, but you can fairly easily turn this feature off in most browsers. (It¡¯s the first thing that I do whenever installing a new browser.)
Such notifications can¡¯t, in and of themselves, do anything malicious other than scare you into acting foolishly. They are scareware, but not technically malware.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice
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Brent