{"id":1063,"date":"2005-02-18T20:11:14","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2005-02-18T20:11:14","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T20:11:14","slug":"microsofts_free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s Free Anti-Spyware: What does it really cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joel has some useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2005\/02\/17.html\">comments<\/a> on Microsoft&#8217;s latest attack on other software companies: &#8220;free&#8221; antispyware software.   Wiping out the competition surely opens up a can of worms (I agree with Joel that it is highly unlikely that Microsoft will truly wipe out your spyware &#8211; especially when a friendly media conglomerate has paid to put it on your vulnerable pc).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel has some useful comments on Microsoft&#8217;s latest attack on other software companies: &#8220;free&#8221; antispyware software. Wiping out the competition surely opens up a can of worms (I agree with Joel that it is highly unlikely that Microsoft will truly wipe out your spyware &#8211; especially when a friendly media conglomerate has paid to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}