{"id":585,"date":"2005-01-04T09:28:37","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T09:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=585"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:31","slug":"the_virus_linge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2005\/01\/04\/the_virus_linge\/","title":{"rendered":"The virus lingers on."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, my new computer got infected by a virus thanks to a mistake by my wonderful wife. <grin>  I thought I&#8217;d taken care of all of the side effects.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, however, I hadn&#8217;t.  I discovered that I wasn&#8217;t able to access Media Player&#8217;s help, or reinstall the product.  (This is all because I found that I couldn&#8217;t play a video clip.)<\/p>\n<p>In the process of troubleshooting, I found some more system files that I couldn&#8217;t access because nobody had rights to them and the owner wasn&#8217;t known.  (This is what happened to some DLLs previously.)  In order to correct things once and for all, I took ownership of every single file in the Windows directory, then replaced all existing rights to be those inherited from the root directory.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had any problems since.  Hopefully, this fixed things once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, my new computer got infected by a virus thanks to a mistake by my wonderful wife. I thought I&#8217;d taken care of all of the side effects. Apparently, however, I hadn&#8217;t. I discovered that I wasn&#8217;t able to access Media Player&#8217;s help, or reinstall the product. (This is all because I found &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2005\/01\/04\/the_virus_linge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The virus lingers on.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}