Trojan Horse, Malware And Adware; The Computer's
Enemy
Author: Danial Leecal

Everyone ever heard the word "Trojan Horse". Do you know what
it is? This article will discuss about the trojan horse and the
process of it's work.

The Trojan horse is the computer program which can harmful your
computer by the getting of the other viruses to your computer.
The Trojans are not the virus. They can not replicate themselves
like the virus. The Trojan will be tricky.

The example of the trojan's work are:

- They will make the pop-up windows when you are online. They
will make you annoyed. But if you have the activities with the
pop-up windows, sometime they will download the virus to your
computer.

- When you receive the emails with the subjects like "The
program can kill the new virus on your computer, download now",
you should know that is not safe for your computer. If you
download or run this program, It will harmful your computer.

- They will change your desktop setting or some program's
setting. This is not the serious problem if you can change them
back.

- They will erase, overwrite or steal your important data such
as banking account and credit card number.

- They will spread the virus, malware or adware in your
computer. The important purpose of this method is stealing your
data. There are the easy methods like log-keystrokes and putting
the backdoor.

The easy ways to protect your computer from the Trojan are:

- You should be not to download or save anything to your
computer if you are not 100 percent sure of its source
especially emails with attachment, instant massaging and
unconfident websites.

- You should update your operating system especially Microsoft
window to the up-to-date version.

- Anti-virus software is the important point to get. You should
have at least one program for the protection and always keep it
up-to-date. It will kill the new virus in your computer. The
real time anti-virus software is the necessary for you.

- You should activate the firewall protection your computer. It
can block the in-coming or out-going programs that can harmful
your computer.

If you are following these methods, it will decrease the chance
to infection and increase your computer security.

Spyware and Adware are the other dangerous programs for your
computer. But now, the online advertisements through these tools
have become the 2,000,000 USD. This is the aggressive
advertising and spying tactics. There are a lot of anti-spyware
and anti-adware such as Counter Spy, Ad-Aware, Spyware sweeper
and more.

Their basic features of these programs are:

- Detect and remove spyware/adware in your computer.

- Real-time protection.

- Detection and removal of tracking cookies.

- History cleaner.

- Secure file eraser: the tools that can completely remove your
deleted files in your computer.

- PC Explorer: the tools that can explorer to the unaccess area
in your computer such as start up program, active-X program and
system files.

- Support more than one operating system such as window 98,
window ME, Window XP, Linux and Window NT.

- Online update: For update program to the new engine and new
spyware database.


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