{"id":380,"date":"2002-06-06T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2002-06-07T04:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=380"},"modified":"2005-07-22T15:47:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-22T23:47:38","slug":"is-shareware-still-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"is shareware still infected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madrone.com\/\">Heather Madrone<\/a> has an interesting question.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n My 13-year-old daughter downloaded some software this week.  I asked her to check with me next time, so I could show her how to scan it for viruses before she installs it.  Then I thought, &#8220;Now wait a minute.  Can you still get viruses from downloading software?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in the bad old days, viruses infected programs, and were handed around on diskettes or via download.  When they infected your system, they might hitch a ride on another piece of software.  I haven&#8217;t heard of a virus propagating itself that way in years. <\/p>\n<p> So what&#8217;s the scoop?  Does it still happen?  Or is email such a superior tool for virus propagation that virus creators have given up on slipping viruses into software?  Are download sites too well-protected for a virus to slip by their defenses?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Madrone has an interesting question. My 13-year-old daughter downloaded some software this week. I asked her to check with me next time, so I could show her how to scan it for viruses before she installs it. Then I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neep-neep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}