{"id":302,"date":"2016-10-23T05:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2021-08-16T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T09:58:05","slug":"why-windows-has-more-viruses-than-mac-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"Why Windows Has More Viruses than Mac and Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Popularity<\/h3>\n<p>Windows is a big target because it powers the vast majority of the world\u2019s desktop computers and laptops. If you\u2019re writing malware and you want to infect average computers users \u2013\u00a0 perhaps you want to install a key logger on their systems and steal their credit card numbers and other financial data \u2013 you would target Windows because that\u2019s where the most users are.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vlp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/broken-window.jpg?height=200p&amp;trim=2,2,2,2\"\/><h3>Why Windows Has More Viruses than Mac and Linux<\/h3><div class=\"summary\">We all know that Windows is the most malware-ridden platform out there, but why is that? Windows is the most popular desktop operating system, but that isn\u2019t the only reason \u2013 past decisions made Windows a fertile breeding ground for viruses and other malware.<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popularity Windows is a big target because it powers the vast majority of the world\u2019s desktop computers and laptops. If you\u2019re writing malware and you want to infect average computers users \u2013\u00a0 perhaps you want to install a key logger on their systems and steal their credit card numbers and other financial data \u2013 you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}