Trojan Horse Workshop

200 hits since 06 March 2008 | Author: Tom Chambers

The original Trojan Horse term was coined with soldiers hiding inside a wooden horse. Today the term is seen regularly, with the most probable being your anti-virus software warning that it has detected some trojan horse file and deleted it.

What does it all mean?

Essentially a trojan horse computer program is some program which may perform some other action which is unwanted. For example, you may have got a picture viewer program from the internet, which when you run it, it sets your internet browsers homepage to www.some_commercial_site.co.uk. This is behaviour which you didn't want or expect, all you wanted was to view some picture files.

How are Trojan Horses removed?

Well, antivirus software is a good start.

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