{"id":1327,"date":"2014-08-09T08:39:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T08:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:48","slug":"shopperfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/shopperfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did ShopperFriend Install On Your Machine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you find something called\u00a0<strong>ShopperFriend<\/strong> on your machine and wonder where it came from? Chances are that you got it from clicking one of the ads over at T<strong>he Pirate Bay<\/strong>. That&#8217;s where I found ShopperFriend, bundled in an executable that pops up when mistakenly clicking one of the ads instead of the real .torrent download.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the minimal disclosure looks like in the installer. As you can see, there&#8217;s no explanation of what the ShopperFriend software does.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shopperfriend.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shopperfriend.png\" alt=\"shopperfriend\" width=\"504\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shopperfriend.png 504w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/shopperfriend-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also get ShopperFriend from The Pirate Bay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you find something called\u00a0ShopperFriend on your machine and wonder where it came from? Chances are that you got it from clicking one of the ads over at The Pirate Bay. That&#8217;s where I found ShopperFriend, bundled in an executable that pops up when mistakenly clicking one of the ads instead of the real .torrent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/shopperfriend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Did ShopperFriend Install On Your Machine?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}