{"id":171,"date":"2011-11-28T16:32:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T23:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-03-20T16:53:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T23:53:30","slug":"computer-virus-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/171","title":{"rendered":"Computer Virus Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"75\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Sometimes my computer runs so slowly.  I think there must be a virus of some kind that&#8217;s infected my operating system.  Is there anyway I can give my computer an antibiotic? <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from\u00a0Barbara Burton of  St. Louis MO<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>First of all, antibiotics affect bacteria.  Nothing affects a virus except plenty of liquids and bed rest.  I haven&#8217;t run the diagnostic tests, but I imagince your computer&#8217;s sluggishness has more to do wtih the quality of electrons you&#8217;re using.  Are you using a surge protector?  Often, they eliminate the zestiest, most energetic electrons, passing along the Johnny-come-lately sluggards and truly negative-charged electrons. Your power company may even be selling you used electrons.  You could fire off an angry letter to the editor, demanding a congressional investigation and see if that helps.   Of course if you want to fire off the letter, you might need to use a typewriter, if your computer&#8217;s as slow as you say it is. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes my computer runs so slowly. I think there must be a virus of some kind that&#8217;s infected my operating system. Is there anyway I can give my computer an antibiotic? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/171\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}