{"id":148,"date":"2005-01-11T06:10:58","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T06:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=148"},"modified":"2005-01-11T06:10:58","modified_gmt":"2005-01-11T06:10:58","slug":"attack-of-the-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/01\/11\/attack-of-the-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Viruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/24\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-965\" title=\"2005.01.10\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/01\/2005.01.10.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Sounds like the title of a really bad B-movie, huh? But it was just one of those weekends. It was Friday night when I found out that both my desktop and laptop computers had been infected by a number of adware viruses, which took most of Saturday to completely clean out. I then woke up Sunday morning with the worst case of a stomach virus I&#8217;ve ever experienced, followed by a splitting headache for the rest of the afternoon. Perhaps it was all an omen from our totally unproductive weekend as we embarked on a 2-day marathon to complete Season 3 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/24\">24<\/a>, the award-winning drama series from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\">Fox<\/a> about, of course, the outbreak of a deadly virus. Though we ultimately fell short by 3 episodes, we nevertheless caught the season 4 premiere, all the signs of which points to a terrorist attack in the form of a computer virus! Speaking of computer virus, I would highly recommend this <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.majorgeeks.com\/showthread.php?t=35407\">article<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majorgeeks.com\">Majorgeeks.com<\/a> as a sure-fire protocol to completely wipe out them nasty buggies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like the title of a really bad B-movie, huh? But it was just one of those weekends. It was Friday night when I found out that both my desktop and laptop computers had been infected by a number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/01\/11\/attack-of-the-viruses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}