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What Is A Trojan ? Is It A Virus Or Malware?

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Last updated on July 15th, at 02:55 pm

A TROJAN is a malicious program, self-contained. What does it mean?

It means a TROJAN is a software by itself a malicious code, intended to do something bad to your computer. It will hide within seemingly harmless programs or will try to trick you into installing it.

How does a Trojan get into your computer?

A Trojan may gain excess to your computer without your knowledge. Most of the time by getting embedded in another software that you install.

TROJAN’s don’t replicate itself (as a worm would do), nor does it infect other files like a VIRUS would do. However, they are often grouped with viruses and worms, to have a more devastating effect on the machine.

Trojans survive by going unnoticed. They may sit quietly in your computer, collecting information, or setting up holes in your security, or they may just take over your computer and lock you out.

These are most often used to gain back-door access to the computer remotely.

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Types Of Trojans:

There are different types of TROJANS.

For example Keylogger Remote access Trojans (RAT), Back-door Trojans, etc. A single Trojan may have all these characteristics.

Example ! a Key logger Trojan that also operates as a back-door, commonly gets disguised as a Game hack used by the Gamers as hack tools.

When a user executes that Trojan, it may give a Hacker (maker of the malware) remote excess to a targeted machine or a computer system.

This allows the hacker to gain access and perform all kinds of malicious operations, for example

1: Electronic Money theft
2: Data theft (retrieving passwords, credit card info, etc)
3: Installing third party malware
4: Downloading or uploading of files on the user’s computer
5: Keystroke logging, Watching the user’s screen
6: Crashing the computer. and many more, it all depends on the code written for what purpose.

TROJAN REMOVER free is a software specifically designed to disable/remove Malware without the user having to manually edit system files or the registry.

The majority of the Antivirus programs are good at detecting Trojans and Malware but not always good at effectively removing it.

Trojan remover free can effectively detect and remove Malware, Trojan horses, Adware, Spyware when standard anti-virus software either fails to detect or can not effectively eliminate them.

On top of it, the tool also examines all the system files, the Windows registry and the program files loaded at boot time since the majority of malicious programs(once triggered) loads this way.

Download and install this TROJAN REMOVER free download, to scan detect and remove trojans.

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