Your online financial freedom does count - burn up the Troyan horse

Do not let your online financial freedom be destroyed like Troy.

A Trojan horse, or simply trojan, is a piece of software which appears to perform a certain action but in fact performs another such as a computer virus. The term is derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse.

Simply put, a Trojan horse is not a computer virus in most cases. Unlike such badware, it does not propagate by self-replication but relies heavily on the exploitation of an end-user.

It is instead a categorical attribute which can encompass many different forms of codes. Therefore, a computer worm or virus may be a Trojan horse.

Contrary to popular belief, this action, usually encoded in a hidden payload, may or may not be actually malicious, but Trojan horses are notorious today for their use in the installation of backdoor programs.

The majority of Trojan horse infections occur because the user was tricked into running an infected program. This is why it is advised not to open unexpected attachments on emails - the program is often a cute animation or an image, but behind the scenes it infects the computer with a Trojan or worm.

The infected program doesn't have to arrive via email; it can be sent in an Instant Message, downloaded from a Web site or by FTP, or even delivered on a CD or floppy disk. It is true that the physical delivery is uncommon, but if your online financial freedom is the specific target of an attack, it would be a fairly reliable way to infect your computer.

Furthermore, an infected program could come from someone who sits down at a computer and loads it manually. However, receiving a Trojan in this manner is very rare. It is usually received through a download.

Methods of deletion

Since Trojan horses have a variety of forms, unfortunately there is no single method to delete them. The simplest responses involve clearing the temporary internet files on a computer, or finding the file and deleting it manually. Normally, antivirus software is able to detect and remove the trojan automatically. If the antivirus cannot find it, Rebooting the computer in Safemode (with or without networking) and running an antivirus scan may find the Rat and then the trojan could be deleted.

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