{"id":2853,"date":"2011-05-27T20:19:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:01:00","slug":"remove-your-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/remove-your-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove your software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another one of those emails arrived in my inbox today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Subject: Remove:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Your software needs to be removed from my work computer. I did not install it, I\u00a0do not want it and did not request it.<br>[name redacted]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>No mention <em>what<\/em> software or indication of what platform or what might&#8217;ve happened when my software allegedly ended up in the person&#8217;s computer. Not very friendly either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again I suspect that there&#8217;s some software that uses <a href=\"http:\/\/curl.haxx.se\/\">curl<\/a> in some way, but I can&#8217;t tell for sure&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I replied to it, saying that I didn&#8217;t install anything on his computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one of those emails arrived in my inbox today: Subject: Remove: Your software needs to be removed from my work computer. I did not install it, I\u00a0do not want it and did not request it.[name redacted] No mention what software or indication of what platform or what might&#8217;ve happened when my software allegedly ended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/remove-your-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove your software<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[33,423],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27161,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/27161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}