{"id":2880,"date":"2004-06-30T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2021-06-04T01:10:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T05:10:27","slug":"cleaning-up-the-ms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/06\/30\/cleaning-up-the-ms\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning up the MS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/techbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; It seems like the security warnings about IE are arriving daily now.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/zdnet.com.com\/2100-1105-5253112.html\">latest one<\/a> is almost funny: a flaw Microsoft reportedly fixed in earlier versions of IE has been re-detected in the latest versions! And a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3845835.stm\">BBC story<\/a> today announces that the average Windows computer is infected with <i>28<\/i> spyware programs. Obviously Microsoft has completely given up on maintaining their software. I hope it&#8217;s because they&#8217;re concentrating on XP SP2 (reportedly out in late July) and not that they&#8217;re asleep at the wheel. (Actually after all this time I assume they&#8217;ve built a well-appointed master bedroom at the wheel.) But in the meantime it&#8217;s up to us to protect our own computers; therefore, I encourage you to download, install, and run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safer-networking.org\/index.php?page=download\">Spybot: Search &#038; Destroy<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavasoftusa.com\/support\/download\/\">AdAware<\/a>. Why not run both?! I&#8217;ve also just learned about an application called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.javacoolsoftware.com\/spywareblaster.html\">Spyware Blaster<\/a>, which gives a much needed additional layer of security to IE&#8217;s own cheesecloth-thin layer.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Defend your computers! <i>Someone<\/i> has to.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; It seems like the security warnings about IE are arriving daily now. The latest one is almost funny: a flaw Microsoft reportedly fixed in earlier versions of IE has been re-detected in the latest versions! And a BBC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/06\/30\/cleaning-up-the-ms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-links","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}