What is a Trojan Horse.

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Time Of Evil
Posting Here because I should get an immediate reply.

What is a trojan horse? I have some one my computer.

AAAAAAh confused

eggmayo
Thats a virus.

Time Of Evil
I know but is it spyware, does it crash your computer?

dean7879
it slows it down
download an spyware remover

eggmayo
No, its a virus.
It takes over your computer without you knowing it, can take your bank details, passwords, anything stored on the computer, and can hack into stuff from a remote destination.

My recommendation is to buy Nortons Antivirus

dean7879
or download avg....its free
www.download.com

Shadow_King
also the trojan horse is that wooden horse the greeks builded in order to get into troy.... just trying to lighten up the mood.

s|m
Norton sucks erm

eggmayo
Nortons great, Ive never had a virus in three or four years!

Time Of Evil
LOL laughing nice one SK

Actually Dean, I am scanning with AVG, as I brought norton anti virus, and it wouldnt work.

s|m
har har shadow king no expression

Time Of Evil
No Sarcasm bangin

s|m
Hm.. Norton isnt that efficient.
Try EZ firewall, or bitdefender erm

s|m
And why not? roll eyes (sarcastic)

Time Of Evil
Stop being horrible! Waaaaaa bawlingbawling

s|m
no expression

Time Of Evil
You are so horrible, a bully! Thats it, I've had enough.

6 Rounds! boxing

Ronny
its a horrible virus erm, take care of it. or youll find alot better things to do then sit infront of the computer erm

Time Of Evil
OK, I'm scanning, and I have 6 infected files, and 3 of them are trojans.

Time Of Evil
Just done a recheck, 8 infected files all trojans! Is this bad news?

eggmayo
it is if you cant get rid of them

Time Of Evil
Recheck 10 infected all trojans.

Time Of Evil
How long does it take to scan alll the computers files?

eggmayo
A long frigging time, depending on how big your harddisk is and how much you've got on it.

Time Of Evil
only 20GB

eggmayo
So about 10 - 20 minutes I guess

MC Mike
Norton busts all of the time, free systems are good, but a steady protection program is a good idea.

Time Of Evil
Is the hard drive split when you have multiple usernames for the computer?

SaTsuJiN
There are different kinds of trojans.. and they may be
employed to do different kinds of jobs.. they all are
obtained through the back door method (as the greek
trojan horse similarly did) via a picture or downloaded file.. advertisement, etc. some of them check for passwords..
others may search your mail, leech your
internet connection, and ultimately either crash or reboot
your pc on a consistent basis.. most trojans communicate
with a remote location, and broadband connections are
easiest to infiltrate as their communication with the
internet is constantly on.

eggmayo
Yeah, its probably best to scan all of the seperate files.

Time Of Evil
Well its scanning the whole computer not just my name. Therefore it should take, what..... 1hr, seeing as I have the bulk of the computers material.

SaTsuJiN
most cases with trojans result in a need to reformat, as the files it winds up corrupting are the important system registry files. there are a few cases where a simple virus scan cleans them up.. so heres hopin wink

Frosty Beverage
...It's not called "trojan horse"... just trojan. Don't confuse history with the end of your computer smile

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