{"id":15540,"date":"2018-03-05T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/campus-services\/information-systems-technology\/security-and-passwords\/anti-malware-software\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:01:59","slug":"anti-malware-software","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/campus-services\/information-systems-technology\/security-and-passwords\/anti-malware-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malware, a portmanteau from the words\u00a0<em>malicious<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>software<\/em>, is software designed to infiltrate and\/or damage a computer system. Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, most rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware, crimeware and other malicious and unwanted software.<\/p>\n<p>When a particularly stubborn piece of malware has infiltrated your computer&#8217;s defenses, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software can help remove it. Instructions for downloading, installing and running Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, are\u00a0provided below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malware, a portmanteau from the words\u00a0malicious\u00a0and\u00a0software, is software designed to infiltrate and\/or damage a computer system. Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, most rootkits, spyware, dishonest adware, crimeware and other malicious and unwanted software. When a particularly stubborn piece of malware has infiltrated your computer&#8217;s defenses, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software can help remove it. Instructions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":15529,"menu_order":300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15540","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37111,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15540\/revisions\/37111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}