{"id":199,"date":"2004-04-17T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=199"},"modified":"2004-04-17T07:29:46","modified_gmt":"2004-04-17T07:29:46","slug":"pcs_infested_with_spy_programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"PC&#8217;s infested with spy programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:vf2uTV9alo8J:iatservices.missouri.edu\/techknowledge\/images\/spy-cam.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/3633167.stm\">Windows PC users<\/a> are subject to an average of 28 electronic spies on their computer, the BBC reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The average computer is packed with hidden software that can secretly spy on online habits, a study has found.<br \/>\nThe US net provider EarthLink said it uncovered an average of 28 spyware programs on each PC scanned during the first three months of the year. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two options: be super diligent about what&#8217;s installed on your pc | use a mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows PC users are subject to an average of 28 electronic spies on their computer, the BBC reports: The average computer is packed with hidden software that can secretly spy on online habits, a study has found. The US net provider EarthLink said it uncovered an average of 28 spyware programs on each PC scanned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}