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Trojan horse virus!
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Trojan
horse virus:
By Raymond Garcia
WebTechGeek.com
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Part 1
A Trojan horse virus can allows a remote attacker
to access the victim's computer across a network or Internet. everyone has heard of the story of the
Trojan horse written by the Greek poet Homer in his famous
book The Iliad. If you understand the trojan horse story you understand
a Trojan Horse virus on a computer. In the story the Greeks
(Not Geeks) give a giant wooden horse to their enemies, the Trojans,
as a peace offering. The unsuspecting Trojans drag the
horse into Troy, a walled city. Once inside Greek soldiers,
who are hiding in the horse's hollow belly, open the city
gates and the Greek army pours in and takes Troy by force.
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Malicious programmers also use the Trojan horse
trick. The idea is that they create a program that is
sometimes disguised as a computer virus killer or some
other apparently useful program. After a user installs
it on their machine. The attacker can then access the
user's machine remotely, via the Internet typically, and
either take control of the machine or simply snoop around
on it. The most famous Trojan horse virus is known as
Back Orifice.
Trojan horse virus: Part 2
Part 1 all about viruses.
Part 2 - What is a PC Virus, more about virus.
Part 3 - Protecting yourself from viruses, software list.
Part 4 - What is a Trojan horse.
Part 5 - Virus hoax.
