How does a Trojan Horse Virus Work?

Written by AJSPM on November 25th, 2009

A Trojan horse is an email virus usually released by an email attachment. Once the email containing the Trojan virus is opened it will immediately sour your hard drive.

The difference between a regular virus and a Trojan horse is that a regular virus hides from you, while a Trojan horse is right in front of you, pretending to be something that it isn’t. A Trojan could be in a game that you have downloaded or any other useful application.

Generally a Trojan Virus works by hiding itself in a set of useful software applications. Once the particular software application is installed or executed, Trojan Virus starts affecting the computer system

Trojan viruses are designed to allow a hacker remote access to a target computer system. Once this virus has been installed in your computer the hacker can easily get hold of the system and can access it remotely. The hacker can perform the following functions by once a Trojan virus is installed in a computer.

• Installation of other malware and other software
• Viewing the user screen
• Uploading and downloading files.
• Deletion of files or modification of files
• Capturing the password or the credit card information
• There are different types of Trojan virus. Some of these include: remote access Trojans (RATs), backdoor Trojans (backdoors), IRC Trojans (IRCbots), and key logging Trojans

Ways in which a Trojan virus is been installed or distributed

• Websites containing executable content (i.e. a Trojan horse in the form of an ActiveX control)
• Email attachments
• Software downloads – a Trojan virus will be included as a part of the software application.
• A Trojan virus could be in any application exploits like messaging client, web browser, and other media players
• Another method used by hackers to spread their Trojan Horse viruses is through interactive software such as Yahoo and Skype
• Trojan also infects machines through sending copies of itself to the people in the address book of a user whose computer has already been infected by the virus.

Removal of Trojan Virus:

There are a lot of Antivirus softwares that are designed to detect and delete Trojan Horse Virus. It also prevents them from being installed. In situations where the security of the computer system is critical, it is advisable to simply erase all data from the hard disk. Reinstalling the operating system and all the required software will also help in preventing a viral infection.

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