{"id":49,"date":"2006-05-30T19:51:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T23:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2006\/05\/30\/the-badware-problem\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T19:51:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T23:51:19","slug":"the-badware-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/the-badware-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Badware&#8221; problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all seen it happen: you or someone you know has downloaded something from the internet that seemed harmless enough at the time. Next thing you know, the computer has slowed to a crawl. Pop-up advertising starts to appear out of nowhere. Private information gets sent to some company you&#8217;ve never heard of. And the worst part? Trying to uninstall the software sometimes makes the problem worse.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of visitors to StopBadware.org have shared their badware experiences with us since we launched. From their stories, we&#8217;ve identified and tested four applications that contain annoying or objectionable behaviors. To find out what we think of Kazaa, MediaPipe, SpyAxe, and Screensaver.com.<\/p>\n<h3><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stopbadware.org\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve all seen it happen: you or someone you know has downloaded something from the internet that seemed harmless enough at the time. Next thing you know, the computer has slowed to a crawl. Pop-up advertising starts to appear out of nowhere. Private information gets sent to some company you&#8217;ve never heard of. And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}