{"id":95,"date":"2001-05-29T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2001-05-29T20:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2001-05-29T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2001-05-29T20:27:28","slug":"a-bit-of-computer-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/05\/a-bit-of-computer-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"a bit of computer advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>a bit of computer advice from the former Resident Computing Intern:<\/i><br \/>\nis your computer running something you don&#8217;t know it is?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve encountered a program called &#8220;comet cursor,&#8221; then it&#8217;s likely it is. cc recently installed itself when I visited a friend&#8217;s webpage. even more annoyingly, it also installed &#8220;webHancer,&#8221; a small spyware program.<\/p>\n<p>if you want to know how to remove it, go here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cexx.org\/webhancer.htm\" class=\"extlink\">Backdoor Santa Spyware: WebHancer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a bit of computer advice from the former Resident Computing Intern: is your computer running something you don&#8217;t know it is? If you&#8217;ve encountered a program called &#8220;comet cursor,&#8221; then it&#8217;s likely it is. cc recently installed itself when I visited a friend&#8217;s webpage. even more annoyingly, it also installed &#8220;webHancer,&#8221; a small spyware program. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/2001\/05\/a-bit-of-computer-advice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a bit of computer advice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pearlescent.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}