{"id":556,"date":"2007-01-06T19:12:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T13:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/06\/beware-that-anti-virus-software\/"},"modified":"2007-01-06T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T13:42:32","slug":"beware-that-anti-virus-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/06\/beware-that-anti-virus-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware that anti-virus software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this. Having discovered <strong>a virus in its mail system,<\/strong> a mid-sized Indian <strong>pharmaceutical <\/strong>research company <strong>downloaded a free antivirus<\/strong> software from the Internet. It cleaned the viruses and apparently <strong>everything was fine<\/strong>. Until it discovered that sensitive information was being passed off to its<strong> competitors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We discovered that the antivirus had, in fact, silently planted a spyware that sent every <strong>copy of emails to another address<\/strong> from where it was being passed off to its competitors. Even antivirus softwares may not be safe!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <strong>Ironport Systems\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/strong> regional director for India &#038; Saarc Ambarish Deshpande told ET.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>Read More @ <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/Beware_that_anti-virus_software\/articleshow\/988139.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Economic Times<\/a> (30 Dec 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this. Having discovered a virus in its mail system, a mid-sized Indian pharmaceutical research company downloaded a free antivirus software from the Internet. It cleaned the viruses and apparently everything was fine. Until it discovered that sensitive information was being passed off to its competitors. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We discovered that the antivirus had, in fact, silently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-services--security","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}