{"id":1212,"date":"2007-10-05T01:26:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T18:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2007-10-05T01:26:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T18:26:26","slug":"americans-wrong-about-computer-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/americans-wrong-about-computer-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans wrong about computer security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans believe their computers are protected against viruses and spyware, but scans found that a large number had outdated or disabled security software, according to a poll released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Fully 87 percent of Americans polled said they had antivirus software, 73 percent said they had a firewall and 70 percent said they had antispyware software, according to the survey by security software maker McAfee and the National Cyber Security Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>But when pollsters asked to remotely scan the respondents&#8217; computers, the story turned out to be very different.<\/p>\n<p>While 94 percent of those polled had antivirus software, just half had updated it in the past month, the survey showed. Eighty-one percent had a firewall protecting private information, but just 64 percent had enabled it. And 70 percent said they had antispyware software, but only 55 percent had enabled it.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/Poll-Americans-wrong-about-computer-security\/2100-1029_3-6211093.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans believe their computers are protected against viruses and spyware, but scans found that a large number had outdated or disabled security software, according to a poll released on Monday. Fully 87 percent of Americans polled said they had antivirus software, 73 percent said they had a firewall and 70 percent said they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-spam","category-spyware","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}