{"id":4502,"date":"2014-12-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?guid=84555bf8b3546e4cec71990ea1b12b72"},"modified":"2014-12-26T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T23:00:00","slug":"the-price-of-being-popular-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4502","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Being\u00a0Popular"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When software is popular, then there are elements out there who seek to profit from it by less ethical means. Installer packages with added spyware, adware or even malware are apparently part of the (Windows) user experience these&nbsp;days.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> is being attacked in that manner as well, In order to keep safe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/downloads\/\">get <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> from our own downloads pages<\/a> or the sites we link to, and be very cautious when going&nbsp;elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>One victim of this is GIMPshop\u2014started as a fork of <span class=\"caps\">GIMP<\/span> to add <span class=\"caps\">UI<\/span> terms that are more familiar to users of Adobe Photoshop, it is nowadays used to load third-party software onto the unwary user&#8217;s system. Thankfully, the original author is not to blame, as this operation is run by someone&nbsp;else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When software is popular, then there are elements out there who seek to profit from it by less ethical means. Installer packages with added spyware, adware or even malware are apparently part of the (Windows) user experience these&nbsp;days.<\/p>\n<p><span>GIMP<\/span> is being attacked in that manner as well, In order to keep safe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gimp.org\/downloads\/\">get <span>GIMP<\/span> from our own downloads pages<\/a> or the sites we link to, and be very cautious when going&nbsp;elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>One victim of this is GIMPshop&mdash;started as a fork of <span>GIMP<\/span> to add <span>UI<\/span> terms that are more familiar to users of Adobe Photoshop, it is nowadays used to load third-party software onto the unwary user&rsquo;s system. Thankfully, the original author is not to blame, as this operation is run by someone&nbsp;else.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/?p=4502\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,6,44,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-floss","category-imaging","category-oss"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9jmWQ-1aC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evolve.rabatmalta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}