{"id":18003,"date":"2009-06-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/06\/05\/bonus-chatter-about-that-virus-that-is-responsible-for-the-top-six-explorer-crashes\/"},"modified":"2009-06-05T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:00:00","slug":"bonus-chatter-about-that-virus-that-is-responsible-for-the-top-six-explorer-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090605-00\/?p=18003","title":{"rendered":"Bonus chatter about that virus that is responsible for the top six Explorer crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/05\/21\/8525411.aspx\"> a virus that is responsible for the top six Explorer crashes<\/a>, by a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p> I learned later how the authors of this XYZ Virus operate, and it happens to answer <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/05\/21\/8525411.aspx#8528804\"> a question posted by commenter SteveL<\/a> as to why these virus writers are so incompetent that they crash so much. <\/p>\n<p> First, the virus authors infect your computer and crash your system every so often <i>on purpose<\/i>. Meanwhile, they also set up a legitimate-looking Web site which sells anti-virus software that claims to remove this virus. You send them your money, they send you the software. <\/p>\n<p> The kicker is that the removal software <i>doesn&#8217;t work<\/i>. Your computer is still infected with the XYZ virus. But they don&#8217;t care. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Gnomes_(South_Park)&amp;oldid=212904113#The_Gnomes\"> They already got your money<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I wrote about a virus that is responsible for the top six Explorer crashes, by a wide margin. I learned later how the authors of this XYZ Virus operate, and it happens to answer a question posted by commenter SteveL as to why these virus writers are so incompetent that they crash so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-18003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Last year, I wrote about a virus that is responsible for the top six Explorer crashes, by a wide margin. I learned later how the authors of this XYZ Virus operate, and it happens to answer a question posted by commenter SteveL as to why these virus writers are so incompetent that they crash so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}