{"id":3188,"date":"2018-11-12T01:16:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2018-11-12T01:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:16:59","slug":"malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The differences between \"viruses\" and \"malware.\" Viruses are a specific type of malware (designed to replicate and spread), while malware is a broad term used to describe all sorts of unwanted or malicious code.<br \/>\nMalware can include viruses, spyware, adware, nagware, trojans, worms, and more. However, because viruses (and to a lesser extent, trojans and worms) made headlines a few years ago, most security companies focused their marketing on them, which is why they're called \"antivirus.\"<\/p>\n<p>Note: Malware like Trojans, Worms, Backdoors, Exploits, Adware, and PUP (Potentially Unwanted Programs), which can include communication clients, remote desktops and password revealers<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/mwb-download\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/security.symantec.com\/nbrt\/npe.aspx<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/malicious-software-removal-tool-details.aspx?id=16<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USCERT_gov\" data-widget-id=\"714836104025935873\">Tweets by @USCERT_gov<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+\":\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The differences between \"viruses\" and \"malware.\" Viruses are a specific type of malware (designed to replicate and spread), while malware is a broad term used to describe all sorts of unwanted or malicious code. Malware can include viruses, spyware, adware, nagware, trojans, worms, and more. However, because viruses (and to a lesser extent, trojans and worms) made headlines a few&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/malware\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3189,"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesissystem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}