{"id":603,"date":"2018-08-02T21:53:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/?p=603"},"modified":"2018-08-02T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:53:21","slug":"chromes-malware-scanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Chrome&#8217;s Malware Scanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You haven&#8217;t been on the seedy parts of the internet recently have you? Naw, I didn&#8217;t think so. Guess what&#8230; I&#8217;ve recently gotten 2 viruses due to infected ads on song lyrics sites. I&#8217;ve personally seen proof you don&#8217;t have to be surfing p0rn to get malware on your computer, so here&#8217;s something you can use before you end up with a full-blown zombie computer.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s Chrome browser on Windows has a scanner bake into it, called Cleanup. It runs periodically, but you can run it anytime you want to by going to &#8220;Settings &gt; Reset and Clean Up &gt; Clean Up Computer&#8221;, or simply enter the following URL into the address bar: &#8220;chrome:\/\/settings\/cleanup&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;ll still need virus protection, this scanner takes care of the light-weight tasks of what affects Chrome. Simply put, it will remove software that doesn&#8217;t abide by Google&#8217;s unwanted software policy. So, if you&#8217;re browser is running slow, give this a try.<\/p>\n<p>-James A. Miller<br \/>\nAlpha &amp; Omega Consulting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You haven&#8217;t been on the seedy parts of the internet recently have you? Naw, I didn&#8217;t think so. Guess what&#8230; I&#8217;ve recently gotten 2 viruses due to infected ads on song lyrics sites. I&#8217;ve personally seen proof you don&#8217;t have to be surfing p0rn to get malware on your computer, so here&#8217;s something you can&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/?p=603\" class=\"themebutton2\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoconsultingllc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}