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>>900164 (OP)

>What programs can I use to accessibly monitor my internet traffic?

wireshark (among others)

>How the fuck can I, someone who doesn't know how to handle anything at the data-level, understand wireshark?

practice, tutorials, books

>Is wireshark necessary? If so, how did you begin to understand it?

perhaps not. get glasswire (assuming winblows). its also a firewall. NOTE: this only monitors what's going in and out of your specific PC iirc, not the whole network

>How do I avoid false positives and jumping at the wind?

experience. are you already using umatrix? if not, learn it. have you already figured out how to properly configure a firewall? if not, learn it. knowing these will help when you start attempting to identify particular packets

>What other programs can I use to protect myself from potential botnets?

all you really need is an antivirus and a properly configured firewall, they say. you should also harden your OS and your browser

but, most of all, what you really need to do is INSTALL GENTOO:^)

>What programs can I use to accessibly monitor my internet traffic?

TinyWall if Windows.

>>900164 (OP)

I like wireshark because It's flexible and displays a LOT of information.

on top of that it's foss so you don't have to worry about pesky drm and

licensing that might come with a similar but non-free software

All the data will probably be encrypted. You'll only know hosts and maybe applications that connect to them if you use mac system in provision mode. Transparent firewalls are even less useful at this point of time.