{"id":1141,"date":"2008-05-04T08:27:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T08:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.hothardware.com:\/\/358e69435fc7001345a39b47039c630c"},"modified":"2008-05-04T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T08:27:13","slug":"criminals-try-to-copyright-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Criminals Try to Copyright &#8220;Malware&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heck, if you&#8217;re going to write malware, you might as well protect yourself against piracy, and copyright it, right?Professional virus writers are now selling a suite of software on the Internet with an unusual attachment: a detailed licensing agreement that promises penalties for redistributing the malicious code without permission.&#8221;I just kind of chuckled \u2014 it&#8217;s kind of humorous,&#8221; said Zulfikar Ramzan, senior principal security researcher with Symantec Corp.As with any other software, if you&#8217;re going to install<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heck, if you&#8217;re going to write malware, you might as well protect yourself against piracy, and copyright it, right?Professional virus writers are now selling a suite of software on the Internet with an unusual attachment: a detailed licensing agreement that promises penalties for redistributing the malicious code without permission.&#8221;I just kind of chuckled \u2014 it&#8217;s kind of humorous,&#8221; said Zulfikar Ramzan, senior principal security researcher with Symantec Corp.As with any other software, if you&#8217;re going to install <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}