{"id":15229,"date":"2019-05-01T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/news-8978\/"},"modified":"2019-05-01T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T10:30:04","slug":"news-8978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/news-8978\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayback Wednesday: At least he asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Malware from the web is slowly becoming a problem where this support pilot fish works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have about two tickets a week with users saying they have thousands of viruses and they need to download software,\u201d says fish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, every machine has virus protection, and everyone runs locked-down in user-only mode to prevent the rogue installation of software. But we have decided we need to increase our user awareness after the following ticket was received at the help desk:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I just received an ominous warning that my computer was infected with several viruses. I tried running the program to remove these viruses (as it indicated for me to do), but I\u2019m not sure it worked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I wanted to let you guys know in case there is something else I need to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do this:<\/strong> <em>Send Sharky your true tale of IT life<\/em><em> at <\/em><a href=\"mailto:sharky@computerworld.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>sharky@computerworld.com<\/em><\/a><em>. You can also subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Shark Newsletter<\/a> and read some great old tales in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/search?query=+sharky&amp;s=d&amp;start=0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharkives<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3391917\/wayback-wednesday-at-least-he-asked.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>Malware from the web is slowly becoming a problem where this support pilot fish works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have about two tickets a week with users saying they have thousands of viruses and they need to download software,\u201d says fish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, every machine has virus protection, and everyone runs locked-down in user-only mode to prevent the rogue installation of software. But we have decided we need to increase our user awareness after the following ticket was received at the help desk:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I just received an ominous warning that my computer was infected with several viruses. I tried running the program to remove these viruses (as it indicated for me to do), but I\u2019m not sure it worked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3391917\/wayback-wednesday-at-least-he-asked.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[3764,714],"class_list":["post-15229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-malware","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}