{"id":209,"date":"2011-01-31T05:33:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T05:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/?p=209"},"modified":"2011-03-13T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T08:41:07","slug":"beginner%e2%80%99s-guide-is-that-a-real-anti-malware-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/beginner%e2%80%99s-guide-is-that-a-real-anti-malware-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner\u2019s Guide: Is that a real anti-malware product?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In all our discussion of Trojans, downloaders, malicious spam and more than 700 rogues, it\u2019s easy to forget that a lot of folks out there using the Internet simply can\u2019t tell the difference between a rogue and a legitimate anti-malware application. They become the victims of scareware. They pay $49.98 for software that doesn\u2019t do anything but pop up frightening warnings. To boot, they may have their credit card information stolen.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/images.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-210\" title=\"images\" src=\"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"175\"><\/a><br \/>\nTo light a small candle in this vast darkness, Sunbelt Software has produced a guide to help non-technical Internet users recognize rogue anti-malware products.<\/p><div id=\"mwtad274419614\" class=\"gas_fallback-ad_309684--placement_360520\" style=\"margin-top: 30px;margin-bottom: 30px;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-7750719144850257\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7750719144850257\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3957935887\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHow to Tell If That Pop-Up Window Is Offering You a Rogue Anti-Malware Product\u201d is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeltsecurity.com\/dl\/Is%20it%20a%20real%20anti%20malware%20product.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all our discussion of Trojans, downloaders, malicious spam and more than 700 rogues, it\u2019s easy to forget that a lot of folks out there using the Internet simply can\u2019t tell the difference between a &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Beginner\u2019s Guide: Is that a real anti-malware product?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/beginner%e2%80%99s-guide-is-that-a-real-anti-malware-product\/#more-209\" aria-label=\"Read more about Beginner\u2019s Guide: Is that a real anti-malware product?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malwaretips.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}