{"id":8719,"date":"2009-05-11T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/McAfee-Zombie-PCs-Up-50-Since-2008"},"modified":"2009-05-11T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T16:33:16","slug":"mcafee-zombie-pcs-up-50-since-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=8719","title":{"rendered":"McAfee: &#8220;Zombie PCs&#8221; Up 50% Since 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a way to get attention to your product: suggest that it can prevent consumers&#8217; PCs from becoming a &#8220;zombie.&#8221; Believe it or not, a new report from McAfee suggests there has been a 50% increase in the number of detected &#8220;zombie computers&#8221; since 2008. You&#8217;re terrified already, aren&#8217;t you?According to a BBC report, a zombie PC is simply one that has been hijacked by a cyber-criminal, or in other words, commandeered without the owner realizing it. Needless to say, such a situation is indeed scary, with crooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a way to get attention to your product: suggest that it can prevent consumers&#8217; PCs from becoming a &#8220;zombie.&#8221; Believe it or not, a new report from McAfee suggests there has been a 50% increase in the number of detected &#8220;zombie computers&#8221; since 2008. You&#8217;re terrified already, aren&#8217;t you?According to a BBC report, a zombie PC is simply one that has been hijacked by a cyber-criminal, or in other words, commandeered without the owner realizing it. Needless to say, such a situation is indeed scary, with crooks <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=8719\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}