2. Trojan horse Many hackers want to slip a virus on your computer. Once installed, a virus can record everything you type and send it back to the hacker. It can send out spam email or attack other computers. To do this, the hackers disguise the virus as something harmless. This is called a Trojan horse, or just Trojan. One of the most popular ways to deliver a Trojan is a variation of the phishing email scams. For example, the email might say its from a shipping service, bank or other reputable company. Theres been a problem with a transaction! To learn more, you have to open an email attachment. The attachment might look like a normal file, but it really contains a Trojan. Clicking on the file installs it before you can do anything. Similar scams appear on Facebook and Twitter. You think youre going to watch a funny video your friend posted. Instead, a popup tells you to update your video player. The update file it provides is really a Trojan. The key to defeat this tactic, as with phishing emails, is common sense. However, up-to-date security software is essential as well. It should detect and stop most Trojans before they can install.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:14:38 +0000
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