{"id":9200,"date":"2013-01-29T22:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T04:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9200"},"modified":"2013-01-29T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T04:36:59","slug":"yes-that-pc-cleanup-app-you-saw-on-tv-at-3am-is-a-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9200","title":{"rendered":"Yes, that PC cleanup app you saw on TV at 3am is a waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To highlight just why you and your loved ones should never let these applications anywhere near your PC, we picked one that we have recently seen ads for: MyCleanPC. It&#8217;s the archetypal Windows cleanup app\u2014and you probably shouldn&#8217;t install it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2013\/01\/yes-that-pc-cleanup-app-you-saw-on-cable-tv-at-3am-is-a-scam\/\">Yes, that PC cleanup app you saw on TV at 3am is a waste | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are some useful tips on cleaning your PC in this article.\u00a0\u00a0 Like the article advises, I also use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malwarebytes.org\/\">Malwarebytes<\/a> exclusively to scan every now and then if something seems to be running funny.\u00a0 Being on a monitored wifi allows for my firewall, the gateway between the wifi and Internet, to alert me of any funny communication coming from my PC.\u00a0 I have some other unconventional PC security advice that I may provide in a future post once I can put together all my thoughts into a coherent package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To highlight just why you and your loved ones should never let these applications anywhere near your PC, we picked one that we have recently seen ads for: MyCleanPC. It&#8217;s the archetypal Windows cleanup app\u2014and you probably shouldn&#8217;t install it. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9200\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1033,347],"class_list":["post-9200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-issues","tag-anti-virus","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}