Trojan Horses are common yet very malicious programs that pretend to perform a specific function but actually hide within your system and cause your PC to crash, steal your financial information or slowdown your system.
How does a Trojan attack?
A Trojan Horse program has two aspects: the client and the server side. The virus writer has to know the IP address of the machine that he/she wants to attack. The server side is implanted onto the victims PC through e-mail attachment. The virus can be in form of a utility or a program that asks you to download its .exe file on your PC. As soon as you download the file and execute it, the Trojan server is installed in your Windows Registry and starts on its own whenever you boot your PC.
The server side of the Trojan Horse is coded in a manner that it will record all your actions, personal details, financial information and send it across to the virus writer. Some Trojans also infect your PC such that your contact list will start receiving spam e-mail from your e-mail id. These spam e-mail are infected e-mail and if any of your known contacts download such .exe file, their system will be infected too.
How to stay away from Trojans?
There are many steps that you can take in order to keep your PC away from
Trojan Horse Attacks. Here are a few tips and tricks:
- Never open or download attachments from unknown sender
- Incase if you do figure out that your PC is infected by Trojan virus, immediately disconnect from the Internet and try deleting the unknown files manually.
- Use updated and powerful anti-virus, anti-spyware tools
- Never give your password or IP address in open
- Keep your operating system patches updated
- Use powerful firewall incase if you own a network of computers
- Secure your web browser
- Always take a back up of your important files and data
- If need be, reinstall your operating system
Sometimes manually deleting the files may cause a huge problem as many of these files display names familiar to valid Microsoft files. Apart from the measures that you take, you need a
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