{"id":42,"date":"2004-10-21T00:14:02","date_gmt":"2004-10-21T05:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/21\/spyware-is-a-big-problem\/"},"modified":"2004-10-21T00:14:43","modified_gmt":"2004-10-21T05:14:43","slug":"spyware-is-a-big-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/21\/spyware-is-a-big-problem","title":{"rendered":"Spyware Is A Big Problem For Most Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When one of the largest computer manufacters like Dell <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Spyware spurs Dell to offer protective software\/2100-1029_3-5418885.html?part=rss&#038;tag=5418885&#038;subj=news.1029.5\" title=\"Spyware spurs Dell to offer protective software | CNET News.com\">starts<\/a> offering anti-spyware software to it&#8217;s customers,  then there is a problem. According it the article, 20 percent of the support calls are due to spyware. <\/p>\n<p>For me, I am proactive against spyware. I have upgraded to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsxp\/downloads\/updates\/sp2\/cdorder\/en_us\/default.mspx\">WinXP SP2<\/a>, which secures the operating system. I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadfirefox.com\/?q=affiliates&amp;id=4657&amp;t=1\">Firefox<\/a>, as my browser, to stop drive by browser hijacking and spyware sneaking onto my computer.  Lastly I regularly scan my computer with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/en\/home\/index.html\">Spybot-Search &#038; Destroy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavasoftusa.com\/\">Lavasoft Ad-Aware<\/a>, two free tools to detect spyware. Hopefully with a little prevention, you to do not have to deal with spyware. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one of the largest computer manufacters like Dell starts offering anti-spyware software to it&#8217;s customers, then there is a problem. According it the article, 20 percent of the support calls are due to spyware. For me, I am proactive against spyware. I have upgraded to WinXP SP2, which secures the operating system. I use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4urv-G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}