{"id":242,"date":"2002-04-05T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-05T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2002-04-05T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-05T21:50:00","slug":"242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I continue to think spam can&#8217;t get any more confusing or annoying, and yet it continues to confuse and annoy me. Case in point: today, not ten minutes ago in fact, I received a <em>fake<\/em> virus warning. &#8220;A letter sent to you was infected with a virus,&#8221; it says. &#8220;It was deleted. Below are the headers of this message and information from the virus scanner.&#8221; This didn&#8217;t come from <em>my<\/em> virus detection software, though, and I&#8217;m quite sure there is no postmaster at unreality dot net. Maybe someone <em>tried<\/em> to send a virus using a faked e-mail address and my domain name, but overall what I received looks suspiciously like spam since it, too, comes from an address I don&#8217;t recognize. Which begs the question: if you&#8217;re not selling or promiting something, and you&#8217;re not sending a virus, a link or something else, what then is the <em>point<\/em> of spam?<\/font><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to think spam can&#8217;t get any more confusing or annoying, and yet it continues to confuse and annoy me. Case in point: today, not ten minutes ago in fact, I received a fake virus warning. &#8220;A letter sent to you was infected with a virus,&#8221; it says. &#8220;It was deleted. Below are the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=242\">Read more<\/a><\/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":[238],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}