{"id":207,"date":"2006-08-11T12:26:10","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wwco.com\/~wls\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/problems-downloading-aqua-data-studio\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T17:26:10","slug":"problems-downloading-aqua-data-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/problems-downloading-aqua-data-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Problems Downloading Aqua Data Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While trying to download a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquafold.com\/downloads.html\">Aqua Data Studio<\/a> for personal use, I noticed there were no links on the page to get the product.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment, it confused me.  Then I realized the problem resides in Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware Edition.  This little package which is supposed to protect you from evil things on the Internet actually <em>alters web page content<\/em>, adding its own JavaScript besides.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for it is honorable, but the effect isn&#8217;t benign.  It strips out the links to the &#8220;.exe&#8221; files which it feel you might accidently click on, download, and automatically run &#8212; a setting many novices have selected and get themselves into a heap of virus troubles.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is to right click the Internet Security icon in the bottom right (it looks like a yellow globe grid), choose Disable Norton Internet Security, and specify a time like 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I did this, and when I went to reload the page, much to my surprise it didn&#8217;t fix the problem.  Then it dawned on me: browser cache.  A shift-click on the refresh button, and the links I needed magically appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small problem when downloading .EXE files from legit sites, packages like Norton Internet Securty will thwart your attempt, mangling the HTML code itself, so that you don&#8217;t even have a link to the software you want.  Here&#8217;s the hack workaround.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}