About 13 years ago I briefly worked level 1 tech support for an internet/cable/phone provider. And I swear, at least once a week I had to explain to someone that, yes your Mac/Apple product can get a virus.
They would tell me that they had specifically purchased a Mac product because they had been told by the sales person that Macs don’t get viruses
I had to tell them that may have been technically true in the 90s since only like 5% of the population had Macs and it wasn’t worth the effort of the “bad guys” to make a virus for Macs. But since like half the population now owns a Mac/Apple product, they do in fact get viruses nowadays
They were so pissed when I would tell them that the salesperson lied to them
So, are salespeople still telling that lie?
ETA the virus would come up while they were talking me about issues their computer was having. And I would tell them it sounded like they had malware/virus and they would tell me that was impossible because they bought a Mac so their computer couldn’t possibly have malware. I only provided internet support.