{"id":3930,"date":"2011-10-06T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2011-10-05T20:52:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T00:52:20","slug":"connectbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/connectbar\/","title":{"rendered":"ConnectBar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"computer<\/a>I was surfing the internet just the other day when web site popped up. It wanted to install the Connectbar add-on to my Firefox browser. I merely deleted the page and moved on.<\/p>\n

Connectbar is not a listed Firefox add-on.\u00a0 But it does appear to be a legitimate website.\u00a0 However, once installed, Connectbar takes over your web browser’s search engine function.\u00a0 You may not want this to happen.<\/p>\n

Anyway, had I been on a Windows system, Internet Explorer or Firefox would have been easily compromised by this site.\u00a0 Before I knew it, Connectbar, most likely, would have installed whether I wanted it to or not.<\/p>\n

And this happens with Windows quite a bit.\u00a0 In most cases, Windows is run at the administrative level.\u00a0 This leaves Windows wide open.\u00a0 If you happen to hit a website, legitimate or not, software may automatically install on your system.<\/p>\n

But, because I was using Linux<\/a>, the code that powers the Connectbar web site had no idea where to go on my system.\u00a0 It sorta stalled out.\u00a0 Plus, I would have to give any third party software application administrative access to actually install (if it could) on my system.\u00a0Well, that’s just not going to happen.<\/p>\n

Linux<\/a> gets all its software from it’s own repository. You don’t have to second guess websites regarding their software downloads.<\/p>\n

It appears that ConnectBar’s web redirect ads have been prevalent on the website DeviantAt.com. They posted this notice.<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also read more about it here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing. Simply get Linux<\/a>.\u00a0 Once you run Linux, all these problems disappear.\u00a0 No more viruses, no more hijacks, no more spyware, no more redirects.<\/p>\n

With Linux<\/a>, you’re in control, not other websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was surfing the internet just the other day when web site popped up. It wanted to install the Connectbar add-on to my Firefox browser. I merely deleted the page and moved on. Connectbar is not a listed Firefox add-on.\u00a0 But it does appear to be a legitimate website.\u00a0 However, once installed, Connectbar takes over […]<\/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":[397,398,9,10],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-connectbar","tag-hijack","tag-linux","tag-pclinuxos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}