what is a Trojan horse?


Trojan horse is a category of malware which stands for malicious software. Trojan horse as the name implies is taken from a Greek story of Trojan War. Trojan horse plays the same role with you. You often consider a software is good to you but that software in actual is a malware, when you install that software in your system it mess up with your system and might be designed to create a backdoor in your system, so that a hacker or an intruder can access your system remotely. Trojan horse neither replicate itself nor spread itself automatically from one system to another.

How to prevent Trojan Horse attacks to safe yourself?

In order to keep yourself protected from a Trojan Horse attack use a particular anti virus or anti malware software, which provides real time malware protection. Avira, bitdefender, quickheal are the anti malware programs.

So we have learned now, What is a Trojan Horse? and how to prevent these malware attacks in order to safe you, so keep learning from computerflicks. Please leave comments.

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