{"id":163,"date":"2005-04-15T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T13:02:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:43","slug":"browser_helper_objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/04\/15\/browser_helper_objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Browser Helper Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>It has been my experience that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Browser_helper_object\">Browser Helper Objects<\/a> (BHO) cause the most problems on your computer. The problems are caused by &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spyware\">spyware<\/a>&#8221; that hooks itself into Internet Explorer and then opens pop-ups or slows down your computer whenever you run Internet Explorer.<br \/>\nTo check what BHOs you might have installed, you can either use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spywareinfo.com\/~merijn\/\">HijackThis!<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.definitivesolutions.com\/bhodemon.htm\">BHODemon<\/a>. These both show you a list of all BHOs installed, and then you can choose to remove or &#8220;unhook&#8221; them. Even if you don&#8217;t have any spyware installed, it may be a good idea to run the software now so you know how to use it in case you end up with a problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been my experience that Browser Helper Objects (BHO) cause the most problems on your computer. The problems are caused by &#8220;spyware&#8221; that hooks itself into Internet Explorer and then opens pop-ups or slows down your computer whenever you run Internet Explorer. To check what BHOs you might have installed, you can either use &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-internet-tips","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}