Computer Trojan Horse

Trojan Horse

 

What is a Trojan Horse?

Trojan Horse is a malicious program but different from a virus. It is a program that you run because you think it will serve the useful purpose such as a game or providing entertainment. The Trojan Horse, at first glance will appear to be useful software.

However, it actually do damage once it installed or run on your computer. When a Trojan horse is active in your computer, they can cause serious damage by deleting files and destroying information on your computer. However, it is not sent or spread to other computers. Trojans are also known as backdoor on the computer that gives malicious users access to your system. It is possibly allowing confidential or personal information to be compromised. 

 

How do you obtain Trojan Horse?

You mostly obtain a Trojan Horse when you download the files from e-mail, opening text file or Spy ware.  Usually the filenames are .exe, .scr, .bat, or .pif to let Windows know that it can be executed.

 

 

How to stop them?

If your computer is infected, first, install program on your PC that erases the virus.

Second, do virus checks to find which kind of virus you have. Third, erase the viruses that is on your computer.

 

Safety

To protect your computer from Trojan Horse, do not open attachments that you did not expect to gain. Especially, you did not recognize that e-mail address. Moreover, do not download files from file-sharing services such as Kazaa or Gnutella, because file-sharing services are known to be used to help Trojans spread.

 

 Work sited

Trojan Horse

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“What’s the difference between a ‘Trojan Horse’ a ‘Worm’ and a ‘Virus’? – Ask Leo!.”2 Dec 2008 <http://ask-leo.com/whats_the_difference_between_a_trojan_horse_a_worm_and_a_virus.html>.

 

 

 

 

 

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