{"id":134,"date":"2010-11-07T22:12:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T22:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personalcomputeradvisor.vcwebservices.info\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-11-07T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T22:12:32","slug":"avoid-file-sharing-programs-and-be-suspicious-of-free-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Avoid file sharing programs and be suspicious of free downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Installing file or music sharing programs like Kazaa can be dangerous for the inexperienced.\u00a0 You can easily open your computer to prodding by others through the internet.\u00a0 This is a good way to increase your &#8220;profile&#8221; and invite trouble.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Filesharing and other &#8220;free&#8221; internet programs typically invite you to install adware and spyware that feed pop-up ads to your computer.\u00a0 A constant stream of pop-up ads can quickly make your computer unusable.\u00a0 Among the first is pop-ups is typically an offer to install more &#8220;free&#8221; software that claims to stop the pop-ups, but is really more adware!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Be sure to confirm the the source for any software you install on your system.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing file or music sharing programs like Kazaa can be dangerous for the inexperienced.\u00a0 You can easily open your computer to prodding by others through the internet.\u00a0 This is a good way to increase your &#8220;profile&#8221; and invite trouble. Filesharing and other &#8220;free&#8221; internet programs typically invite you to install adware and spyware that feed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personalcomputeradvisor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}