Trojan Horse
A Trojan Horse is not technically a virus. However, it is a program that can be just as harmful as a virus. Trajan Horse
is not considered a virus because it does not replicate.A Trojan horse pretends to be a simple application on your computer
and does something harmful to your computer system when you think it’s doing something useful. (McAfee and msn encarta)
A Trojan Horse has a spy ware that allows it to retrieve information from the user they were sent to then report back the
information to the user that sent it.It can find personal information such as passwords or credit card numbers. A Trojan
Horse can also provide hacker’s a way to get information from a user without being able to be tracked down.
(Ezine articles- how to fix a Trojan horse)
The best way to delete a Trojan horse from your computer would be to install an antivirus.
The virus protection scans your entire computer system frequently and deletes all the
viruses. (Ezine articles- how to fix a Trojan horse)
Also if you want to prevent getting a Trojan horse, simply do not download any file that looks suspicious of carrying a virus.
You can receive a Trojan Horse when you download files or they can be sent to you by emails or instant messaging. The only
way to receive a Trojan Horse is to have downloaded it when you were downloading file. ( Anti virus Yellow Pages)
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