{"id":1639,"date":"2006-06-24T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenbooks.wordpress.com\/2006\/06\/24\/who-didnt-see-this-coming\/"},"modified":"2006-06-24T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T12:41:00","slug":"who-didnt-see-this-coming-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2006\/06\/24\/who-didnt-see-this-coming-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Who didn&#039;t see this coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK&#8217;ers w\/ <strike>ad infested<\/strike> sponsored LJ accounts may have been infected with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/avcenter\/venc\/data\/errorsafe.html\">pop up malware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/it.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/06\/24\/1420251\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;LiveJournal recently introduced an ad-supported level. Over the last few days an advertiser used an ad to install the ErrorSafe malware that tried to trick people into believing they had a fault on the computer that needs them to purchase a fix. The ad used a server-side setting and targetted only those outside the US, to prevent LiveJournal&#8217;s own checks from noticing it. LiveJournal has apologized for the ad and slow response.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LJ says &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/lj_ads\/4176.html?style=mine\">oops<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Flash ads are bad, m&#8217;kay?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/1865\/\">Adblock<\/a> are your friends.  Ditch IE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK&#8217;ers w\/ ad infested sponsored LJ accounts may have been infected with pop up malware. &#8220;LiveJournal recently introduced an ad-supported level. Over the last few days an advertiser used an ad to install the ErrorSafe malware that tried to trick people into believing they had a fault on the computer that needs them to purchase a fix. The ad used a server-side setting and targetted only those outside the US, to prevent LiveJournal&#8217;s own checks from noticing it. LiveJournal has apologized for the ad and slow response.&#8221; LJ says &#8220;oops&#8220;. Flash ads are bad, m&#8217;kay? Firefox and Adblock are your friends. Ditch IE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-lj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}