{"id":1238,"date":"2005-12-02T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/02\/virus-alert-again\/"},"modified":"2005-12-02T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T23:53:00","slug":"virus-alert-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/virus-alert-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus alert&#8230; again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out AIM users, there&#8217;s another one of those &#8220;file.com&#8221; viruses out again.<br \/>\nOne of my friends sent me this message:<br \/>\n<i>look at my new myspace picture<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/d48.yousendit.com\/C\/1F1J7RJKVN6LF2ZBIOXJ9YMH49\/Myspace_11.com\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/users\/13451.jpg<\/a><\/i><br \/>\nNow okay, a JPG file isn&#8217;t harmful, but mouse over the link and see what it REALLY points to&#8230; another &#8220;COM&#8221; file, which contains instructions in Windows to install malicious software. (BTW, don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m not linking to an actual virus &#8211; it&#8217;s disabled on YouSendIt now.)<br \/>\nSo, Windows users: watch out if someone sends you a random image with a &#8220;generic&#8221; message like what I got &#8211; make sure you&#8217;re actually downloading a JPG file. And USE FIREFOX or at least IE6 with Windows XP SP2 so you can see what you&#8217;re actually downloading when you click a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch out AIM users, there&#8217;s another one of those &#8220;file.com&#8221; viruses out again. One of my friends sent me this message: look at my new myspace picture http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/users\/13451.jpg Now okay, a JPG file isn&#8217;t harmful, but mouse over the link and see what it REALLY points to&#8230; another &#8220;COM&#8221; file, which contains instructions in Windows&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/virus-alert-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virus alert&#8230; again.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}