{"id":75,"date":"2004-10-18T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T00:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=75"},"modified":"2004-10-19T22:01:44","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T12:01:44","slug":"spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2004\/10\/18\/spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok it is now one of the biggest problems in desktop systems.  According to Dell and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/fe_full_story.php?content_id=71662\">The Financial Express<\/a> approx 90% of all [Desktop] computers are infected by spyware.<\/p>\n<p>A new site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getnetwise.org\/\">GetNetWise<\/a> gives some basic pointers on how to avoid and remove spyware.<\/p>\n<p>My basic advice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install a personal firewall that detects outgoing connections (ZoneAlarm, Norton Security, etc)<\/li>\n<li>Install and run a virus scanner &#8211; any one is fine<\/li>\n<li>Avoid using Internet Explorer and Outlook whereever possible<\/li>\n<li>Turn off all services you don&#8217;t require, sharing, IIS etc.<\/li>\n<li>Get and run a good spyware removal tool (Adaware, Spybot, etc) &#8211; DON&#8217;T get a spyware tool from an embedded webpage add!  Most of these are fake and will install Spyware.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok it is now one of the biggest problems in desktop systems. According to Dell and The Financial Express approx 90% of all [Desktop] computers are infected by spyware. A new site GetNetWise gives some basic pointers on how to avoid and remove spyware. My basic advice: Install a personal firewall that detects outgoing connections &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2004\/10\/18\/spyware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spyware&#8221;<\/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":[2,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Opinions","category-Software","category-Technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}