{"id":8507,"date":"2012-03-23T23:24:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T03:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2012-03-23T23:24:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T03:24:23","slug":"malware-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8507","title":{"rendered":"Malware in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/6839988570\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7206\/6839988570_b1f6d02843.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had a recurrence of malware on the weblog this week, likely some backdoors I&#8217;ve hopefully shut for good. I ended up paying for a service, then changing passwords and settings all across the board. As of today, it seems to be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, just before the end of today at work, <i>that<\/i> computer was hit by malware, crashing the system and wiping out my profile &#8212; no desktop, no programs, no documents. I left one of our IT guys working on a little before 5, and he seemed optimistic about restoring most, if not all, of my files. There was nothing irreplaceable on my desktop or in my documents, I don&#8217;t think, as most everything I work on is on one of several shared drives. But, still, it would be nice not to lose those files that were there entirely.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been kind of a long week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a recurrence of malware on the weblog this week, likely some backdoors I&#8217;ve hopefully shut for good. I ended up paying for a service, then changing passwords and settings all across the board. As of today, it seems to be fine. Of course, just before the end of today at work, that computer &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8507\">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":[],"tags":[86,28,52],"class_list":["post-8507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-computers","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507"}],"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=8507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}