{"id":886,"date":"2003-09-12T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/09\/12\/the-internet-shouldnt-be-so-hard\/"},"modified":"2003-09-12T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T20:00:57","slug":"the-internet-shouldnt-be-so-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/12\/the-internet-shouldnt-be-so-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Shouldn&#8217;t Be So Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To keep your data from being defaced and\/or destroyed when logging on to the internet when using a Windows computer, you MUST have the following (this is a bare minimum, not what you &#8220;should&#8221; have) unless you want your computer to be taken over my the miscreants of the computer world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Firewall &#8211; IE: Blackice, XP&#8217;s firewall (free but sucky), hardware firewall<\/li>\n<li> Pop-up blocker &#8211; IE: GoogleToolbar, Mozilla&#8217;s blocker, Earthlink&#8217;s blocker\n<\/li>\n<li> Spyware blocker &#8211; IE: Ad Aware, Spybot Search &#038; Destroy\n<\/li>\n<li> Virus Scanner &#8211; Norton, Symantec, McAfee, AVG anti-virus\n<\/li>\n<li> Spam blocker &#8211; IE: Spamkiller, your ISP, Cloudmark\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to install, configure and know (at least in general) how each of the program works so that it doesn&#8217;t ruin your internet experience. This sucks. I remember when the internet was a happy, smiling place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep your data from being defaced and\/or destroyed when logging on to the internet when using a Windows computer, you MUST have the following (this is a bare minimum, not what you &#8220;should&#8221; have) unless you want your computer to be taken over my the miscreants of the computer world: Firewall &#8211; IE: Blackice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}