Trojan Horses
What is a Trojan Horse or Trojans?

Trojan Horse Viruses - Homer's Iliad Happening everyday!

TrojanHorse Introduction

The end of the war. The Trojans had defeated the Greeks by denying permission to their city using their impervious forts and unbreakable city gates. The final day of the war, the Greeks offered the Trojans a giant wooden horse, which marked the end of the war and as an acceptance of defeat and invitation for peace. As soon as the Trojans brought their presentation inside the city, the Greek soldiers who were hiding inside the hollow wooden horse, sprang out, and opened the city gates for their troops. That night the Trojans were defeated and the Troy was captured. Thanks to the wooden horse, called the Trojan horses since then.

This same story may be happening day by day in our households, if you own a computer and you have an Internet connection. The modern Trojan Horses are VIRUSES that simply pretend to be something else, may be they pretend to be something useful and tempt you to copy it to your system. A picture, a music file, a video, an application.. anything can act as a Trojan horse to carry viruses to your system. One important difference between a Trojan and an ordinary virus is that the Trojans hardly replicate very fast. They are intended mainly to be spywares or to bring spywares to the computer.

Now a days, these Trojan horses not only bring soldiers (malicious programs) but also bring spyware programs to keep an eye on what ever you may be doing in your computer. They are also called the Trojan viruses. Trojanhorses are used as carriers of viruses to the system.

How are Trojan horses brought in to our computer?

Even though all the file-copying mechanisms are suitable to transmit Trojans, the Internet is the one big source of a variety of Trojanhorses. Some of the common means of Trojan transmission are,

• Free downloads from the net. Trojan horses may bring programs or script that can copy a file, and install Trojans.
• Downloads from hacking groups. Downloads from underground warez sites may contain an application that can open a backdoor on your computer.
• Cracked applications, which are configured to act as spywares and Trojans.
• Email attachments. Even though the email will look genuine and from a close friend, the attachment may contain Trojans targeted to hack your computer.
• Re-configure existing programs to work as a Trojanhorse. Macros of word processing programs, system surveillance software, keyboard loggers etc can be reconfigured to be used as a Trojanhorse.

Let us see what Trojan horses can do in your system or in the network.

• Trojanhorses can carry viruses to our system. Being the main use of a Trojan horse, they carry viruses and other Trojan programs, spyware etc to the computer.
• Trojanhorses can act as a system monitor, Trojans can act themselves as keyboard logger,
• Trojanhorses can act as a spyware and transmit data to a remote location from inside the system.
• Trojanhorses can Scan your hard disk for data and use the data for the creators' business needs.

How can we protect the system from the attack of Trojans and Trojanhorses?

• First and the most important thing to make sure is to have a good and latest updated anti-spyware. Anti-spyware can scan the computer for Trojanhorses and remove or quarantine them and clean your system.
• Scan the drives for viruses frequently. Scanning the files may help you to remove Trojans and other possible viruses from your system.
• Install a firewall on your computer, which can track requests to connect to the Internet and other network activities.
• Make sure you don't open email attachments without scanning with an anti virus software.

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