{"id":43,"date":"2003-11-07T06:58:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-07T04:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=43"},"modified":"2003-11-07T06:58:01","modified_gmt":"2003-11-07T04:58:01","slug":"us-lawmaker-wants-to-make-antivirus-software-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/07\/us-lawmaker-wants-to-make-antivirus-software-law\/","title":{"rendered":"US Lawmaker wants to make Antivirus software LAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=1093&#038;e=2&#038;u=\/pcworld\/20031106\/tc_pcworld\/113322\">Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>One lawmaker has a possible solution to the increasing problem of computer viruses: requiring all computer users in the United States to install antivirus software on their PCs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it time for the federal government to develop some kind of Internet security agency that would develop standards for all legitimate software, require automatic update and patching, and establish a base level for every single computer in the country?&#8221; Bass said during the hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee&#8217;s Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is there any reason why any computer in this country shouldn&#8217;t have some kind of antivirus software on it as a requirement?&#8221; Bass asked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo News: One lawmaker has a possible solution to the increasing problem of computer viruses: requiring all computer users in the United States to install antivirus software on their PCs. &#8220;Is it time for the federal government to develop some kind of Internet security agency that would develop standards for all legitimate software, require &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/07\/us-lawmaker-wants-to-make-antivirus-software-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Lawmaker wants to make Antivirus software LAW&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}