Trojan Horse Scan
Reasons for running a Trojan Horse virus Scan!
A Trojan horse is named after the gift that the Greeks gave the rulers of the city of Troy in the book Illiad by Homer. In this story, the Greeks built a huge horse made of wood and offered it to the Trojans as a peace offering. What the Trojans did not know was that the horse was hollow and that there were Greek soldiers inside of it. After the Trojans brought the wooden horse inside their gates, the waiting Greeks inside it waited until nightfall, climbed down the horse, and opened the city gate. With the Trojans sleeping, the Greeks were easily victorious over the Trojans. This is how a Trojan horse viruses work as well, hence the name.
A Trojan horse virus acts like a program that appears to be useful but in fact is malware, or malicious software aimed at harming your computer system’s performance. Therefore, you should have a good Trojan horse anti-virus scanner with Trojan horse removal tools that has Trojan horse detection and remove the Trojan horse virus.
Malware uses malicious programs to accomplish their goal of harming or giving the appearance that your computer is infected already and is able to do it without shutting down, or being deleted off of the computer by an administrator or the user. Concealment plays a major role in why people download Trojan horses onto their systems because they are disguised as helpful, harmless, and desirable programs tempting users to install them without truly knowing what they do. Again, this is why they are called Trojan horses or just Trojans. The programs that are contained in the Trojan horse usually take effect immediately upon downloading and can cause a lot of problems and undesired effects. Trojan horses are used to begin a series of virus outbreaks, by downloading a worm into the user’s network. To prevent this from happening, you should scan for Trojan horses often.
Symptoms may vary depending on the virus. Here are a few examples to look for:
- The Windows “Blue Screen Of Death” appears when accessing a program.
- Your computer starts to make odd sounds, play music.
- It takes longer to reboot than usual and runs much slower.
- The amount of empty hard drive space shrinks without any new programs being installed.
- Your screen begins to show odd pop-ups or programs begin to fail.
- Your computer freezes up, locks up, or crashes and you have to reboot your system more than usual.
- Your system’s performance can appear slow down considerably due to a lack of physical RAM memory, failure to access system resources, or the addition of mysterious hidden or corrupt files.