{"id":18,"date":"2006-01-14T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T03:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=18"},"modified":"2006-01-14T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T03:51:19","slug":"spyware-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Spyware Uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is why people should simply not download anything off the &#8216;Net.&nbsp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.siteadvisor.com\/2006\/01\/the_webs_download_disasters_in.html\">These guys<\/a> have a blog entry that is, essentially, dedicated to taking apart spyware and malware from software you can download free from the internet.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It starts innocently enough &#8211; download that cute puppy wallpaper or screensaver free HERE!&nbsp; During the install routine, there is a dizzying and confusing array of windows popping up.&nbsp; You just click through all of them. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Spying is the least of your worries.&nbsp; The wittless ramblings of some poor schmo is of little use to them.&nbsp; They change your system settings.&nbsp; They even redirect you to different sites when you try to visit reputable online vendors.&nbsp; Sometimes they infect you with viruses and rootkits.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I like visiting these sites.&nbsp; I run Mozilla on Linux.&nbsp; Windows malware doesn&#8217;t do very much damage to my computer :).&nbsp; You should read the blog, and be sure to avoid these sites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why people should simply not download anything off the &#8216;Net.&nbsp; These guys have a blog entry that is, essentially, dedicated to taking apart spyware and malware from software you can download free from the internet.&nbsp; It starts innocently enough &#8211; download that cute puppy wallpaper or screensaver free HERE!&nbsp; During the install routine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/famille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}