{"id":352,"date":"2006-11-29T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/yfp\/virus-or-useful\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T03:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T03:56:00","slug":"virus-or-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/virus-or-useful.html","title":{"rendered":"Virus or Useful?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a properly inculcated PC user, you probably always run virus software and, at least occasionally, also ad-ware or spy-ware checkers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavasoftusa.com\/\">Ad-Aware<\/a>. Or maybe the PC seems to be running slow, so you check out what tasks are running. The problem is that sometimes something shows up that you don&#8217;t recognize, like <code>msimn.exe<\/code>. It may not be a problem, but it&#8217;s a  research project to figure out if it&#8217;s a program that should be there or not. Many Google links just go to places that have a one line  description of the task or program, and the rest of the page is trying to get you to buy their software if you want to know more.<\/p>\n<p>This one has a bit more info, and I like the name of the place: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.AnswersThatWork.com\">www.AnswersThatWork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"last\">They&#8217;re still selling, but their free answers are more complete than other sites I&#8217;ve been to. I include it here because it is usually buried deep in all the less-useful Google listing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a properly inculcated PC user, you probably always run virus software and, at least occasionally, also ad-ware or spy-ware checkers such as Ad-Aware. Or maybe the PC seems to be running slow, so you check out what tasks are running. The problem is that sometimes something shows up that you don&#8217;t recognize, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}