{"id":4302,"date":"2008-03-14T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:45:04","slug":"thats-not-msn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/thats-not-msn\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Not MSN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While looking up the lyrics for the song &#8220;Fred Bear&#8221; by Ted Nugent (referred to <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">below<\/a>), I saw something in the corner of my screen that I thought was a little&#8230;.suspicious.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thatsnotmsn.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/thatsnotmsn.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"That's not really MSN\" title=\"That's not really MSN\"><br \/><font size=\"1\"><i>Click for full size<\/font><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That little layer that pops up with the butterfly and offers you the opportunity to download ringtones based on the song you&#8217;re looking at has been crafted to look like a Windows \/ MSN Messenger alert, but it&#8217;s not; its target is login.tracking101.com, which is apparently some sleazy adware serving company.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;m duly suspicious of any ad that masks itself as a function of another program.  Suitably so, in most cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking up the lyrics for the song &#8220;Fred Bear&#8221; by Ted Nugent (referred to below), I saw something in the corner of my screen that I thought was a little&#8230;.suspicious. Click for full size That little layer that pops up with the butterfly and offers you the opportunity to download ringtones based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17581,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/17581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}