Post by Owners' Account on Aug 5, 2005 13:48:39 GMT
Trojan Viruses
In the spirit of this new board, thought I would add some useful information about this subject.
A useful thing to understand is the difference between Trojan Virus and other viruses. In simple terms, a Virus is defined as any computer program that has the ability to self replicate itself. This is the essence of how they spread throughout the computer.
Trojan Virus are nasty little things, and they are exactly what they sound. Basically they hide themselves as other programs/software and trick themselves onto your computer. What’s worse is that unlike the old days where you just got viruses onto your computer by downloading things, these little sods can transfer themselves onto your computer by just viewing a webpage in some cases. They can sit there for hours on end pretending to be something else while slowly slowing down your system until it stops.
On the whole, they are relatively harmless in virus terms, but they do differ from other viruses enough to fool actual virus programs, and that’s why I am bring your attention to them now. Something like Norton Anti Virus is an absolute waist of time when it comes to Trojans (in-fact I think Norton is a waist of time full stop, but I’ll leave that to another article), so it’s good to have a specific Trojan Virus remover program for this one particular, and very common kind of Virus.
The program I use is Ad-aware. It has a free version, it’s fast, small and easy to update. Running that one a week will without doubt find about 100 Trojans on your system, but believe me that’s about normal for an average computer. Best to get rid of them as soon as. I can’t remember the site, but just type “ad-aware” into Google and you should have no problem locating it.
Ok, that’s it from me. I’ll be back soon with my ultimate internet Porn guide. Until then, have fun…..
In the spirit of this new board, thought I would add some useful information about this subject.
A useful thing to understand is the difference between Trojan Virus and other viruses. In simple terms, a Virus is defined as any computer program that has the ability to self replicate itself. This is the essence of how they spread throughout the computer.
Trojan Virus are nasty little things, and they are exactly what they sound. Basically they hide themselves as other programs/software and trick themselves onto your computer. What’s worse is that unlike the old days where you just got viruses onto your computer by downloading things, these little sods can transfer themselves onto your computer by just viewing a webpage in some cases. They can sit there for hours on end pretending to be something else while slowly slowing down your system until it stops.
On the whole, they are relatively harmless in virus terms, but they do differ from other viruses enough to fool actual virus programs, and that’s why I am bring your attention to them now. Something like Norton Anti Virus is an absolute waist of time when it comes to Trojans (in-fact I think Norton is a waist of time full stop, but I’ll leave that to another article), so it’s good to have a specific Trojan Virus remover program for this one particular, and very common kind of Virus.
The program I use is Ad-aware. It has a free version, it’s fast, small and easy to update. Running that one a week will without doubt find about 100 Trojans on your system, but believe me that’s about normal for an average computer. Best to get rid of them as soon as. I can’t remember the site, but just type “ad-aware” into Google and you should have no problem locating it.
Ok, that’s it from me. I’ll be back soon with my ultimate internet Porn guide. Until then, have fun…..