About Trojan Horse Virus
Before knowing how to remove this evil threat first one should know what actually a trojan horse is? It is a security breaking program, also malicious to your computer and is disguised in some benign object. It can be downloaded unknowingly through any document, executable, zip, movie or music file and unleashes a dangerous malware into your drive on executing the files.
This malware can completely wipe your disk or can even send your credit card details and passwords to any stranger on the web. It is not at all operating system specific. It can affect any operating system but affects windows more promptly due to its popularity and weaknesses. This is a silent attacker and many people come to know about its attack after it has infected other connections.
How to Remove Trojon Horse Virus
There are many ways one can avoid itself from being a victim of this
malicious virus but the best is to be attentive in downloading and
executing files form an unknown source or person and also doing a background check
of it, if downloading from a known source. But if you have already been
a victim of it then you need to take immediate steps to remove it from
your drive before it creates some major problem. You need to repair and
then reformat your system completely to remove all malwares which may
take from several hours to several days of time.
It is quite possible that the removal has not been done properly and may
lead to coming back of the virus again and again in such cases you must
take stronger measures to curb this problem.
- Firstly you need to have anti-virus software installed in your system and that too an updated one or else they will miss the latest species of Trojan horse. Anti-virus software helps prevent the system from many Trojan viruses. Then make sure you have updated your operating system as well with all new security patches.
- One may also have to install Anti-trojan programs like The Cleaner which specialize in Trojans. Once it is installed reboot your computer in safe mode and use the cleaner to clean all registries and drives for any Trojan suspected. Make sure the internet is unplugged while cleaning. Once cleaning is complete reboot the system again.
- After using the cleaner make sure that you have updated your operating system and have changed all the passwords. Once the system is repaired make sure to take a backup of every data and reformat the system completely.