{"id":21066,"date":"2011-03-05T19:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/21066\/smile-im-program\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T19:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T00:01:26","slug":"smile-im-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/21066\/smile-im-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Smile IM Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out the Smile IM Program that Vic uses to see just how safe it is.<\/p>\n<p>I found that it installed 187 PUPSC instances.\u00a0 PUPSC stands for &#8220;Potentially Unwanted ProgramS&#8221;.\u00a0 They may or may not cause actual harm to your computer.\u00a0 It also installed a PC Speedup program that is probably far more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>When I uninstalled the program, it took me over 2 hours to remove all the residual files it left behind.<\/p>\n<p>I say use it at your own risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked out the Smile IM Program that Vic uses to see just how safe it is. I found that it installed 187 PUPSC instances.\u00a0 PUPSC stands for &#8220;Potentially Unwanted ProgramS&#8221;.\u00a0 They may or may not cause actual harm to your computer.\u00a0 It also installed a PC Speedup program that is probably far more dangerous. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}