{"id":637,"date":"2005-06-01T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T02:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/01\/ransomeware-the-latest-internet-threat\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T15:13:14","slug":"ransomeware-the-latest-internet-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/01\/ransomeware-the-latest-internet-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Latest Internet Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spam, trojans, viruses, spyware, worms and malware move over, there&#8217;s yet another threat to anyone accessing the web or reading their email: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ransomware\">ransomware<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/story\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163702378\">Information Week<\/a>, unsuspecting internet users are finding their files or computer held hostage by malicious software that demands a ransom be paid before allowing access.<\/p>\n<p>The latest threat comes in the form of a self-proclaimed anti-spyware product called <em>SpywareNo<\/em>.  This ransomware uses the security vulnerabilities in unpatched versions of Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer web-browser to install itself on a user&#8217;s machine and then issue fake spyware warnings until the user agrees to pay for a &#8220;full-version&#8221; of the software from the developer.<\/p>\n<p>As always, consider running an anti-spyware program, such as Webroot&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webroot.com\/products\/spysweeper\/\">Spysweeper<\/a> in addition to your anti-virus software, and make sure that both are updated to the latest patches.  Also, consider a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firewall_%28networking%29\">network firewall<\/a>, even if it&#8217;s a simple $30 hardware <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Router\">router<\/a> between your computer and broadband modem or a software firewall like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonelabs.com\/store\/content\/catalog\/products\/sku_list_za.jsp?lid=nav_za\">Zone Alarm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam, trojans, viruses, spyware, worms and malware move over, there&#8217;s yet another threat to anyone accessing the web or reading their email: ransomware. According to Information Week, unsuspecting internet users are finding their files or computer held hostage by malicious software that demands a ransom be paid before allowing access. The latest threat comes in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2005\/06\/01\/ransomeware-the-latest-internet-threat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ransomware Latest Internet Threat&#8221;<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}