{"id":153,"date":"2007-12-10T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/wpblog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2018-03-03T12:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T20:23:46","slug":"removing-bad-computer-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/removing-bad-computer-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Bad Computer Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever have anyone ask you how to get rid of that spyware or worse on their computer? I have, and have given it a try. It&#8217;s not easy. though.<\/p>\n<p>I have a system in my lab at the office that was infected with a mild case of spyware\/adware, and perhaps a virus or two. As an experiment, I tried to clean all the nasty malware off of the computer. I spent over 20 hours on it (although a lot of that time was waiting for programs to scan the entire hard disk).<\/p>\n<p>But it can be done. It takes a bit of patience and a lot of time. More over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securitydawg.com\/2007\/12\/recovery-from-virus-or-spyware-adware.html\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Security Dawg<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, some Javascript work on a way to reduce &#8220;form spamming&#8221;. And then a bit of holiday shopping tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Along with watching another episode of &#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever have anyone ask you how to get rid of that spyware or worse on their computer? I have, and have given it a try. It&#8217;s not easy. though.<\/p>\n<p>I have a system in my lab at the office that was infected with a mild case of spyware\/adware, and perhaps a virus or two. As an experiment, I tried to clean all the nasty malware off of the computer. I spent over 20 hours on it (although a lot of that time was waiting for programs to scan the entire hard disk).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/removing-bad-computer-things\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Removing Bad Computer Things &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalchoke.com\/digitalchokeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}