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Trojan Horse

A Trojan Horse is a very common virus, but difficult to remove from machine. A trojan horse appears as an offer that makes the user believe it is a beneficial offer. (What is a Trojan Horse virus). The virus effects all folder in your hard drive, searching for personal or financial information. When the virus has found the needed information, its reports it back to the hackers database.

You receive a Trojan Horse via email, through an email attachment. The Trojan horse also is received through update offers. Once its installed it starts to effect all folders or files. The Trojan horse can enter your machine through any download. (what is a Trojan horse virus #2).

Trojan Horses are a very malicious infection. They let internet thief’s hack into personal information. The most dangerous thing about Trojan horses is that they are very hard to detect. Sometimes even anti-virus programs cannot detect them. Trojan Horses are becoming more common for people who have “always on” internet connection such as DSL; although you can also be infected by them with a normal dial-up connection. One way to avoid a Trojan horse is to never accept or download files from unknown sources. (computer security program: Trojan horses)

Machines that a Trojan Horse mostly effects:

Windows 98
Windows 95
Windows XP
Windows Me
Windows Vista
Windows NT
Windows Server 2003
Windows 2000

To help protect yourself from a Trojan Horse, here are some softwares that you can download:

Initial Rapid Release version pending
Latest Rapid Release version December 3, 2008 revision 055
Initial Daily Certified version pending
Latest Daily Certified version December 3, 2008 revision 051
Initial Weekly Certified release date February 19, 2004
(Trojan Horse – Symantec.com)

Work Cited:

“Computer security program: Trojans horse virus.” 4 Dec 2008 <http://www.essortment.com/all/computersecurit_rqbt.htm>.

“Trojan Horse – Symantec.com.” 4 Dec 2008 <http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-021914-2822-99>.

“What is a Trojan Horse Virus?.” 4 Dec 2008 <http://www.tech-faq.com/trojan-horse-virus.shtml>.

“What’s a Trojan Horse virus?.” 4 Dec 2008 <http://antivirus.about.com/b/2006/05/31/whats-a-trojan-horse-virus.htm>.