The Dangers Of Trojan Horses (Moosoft The Cleaner)

Member Name: ansar

Product:	Moosoft The Cleaner
Date:	10/05/01 (540 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to use, has auto-update facility, monitors in the background while you are working on other stuff

Disadvantages: doesn't check for latest updates by itself, you have to run the auto-update facility yourself (so dont get lazy!)

Trojan horse attacks pose one of the most serious threats to computer security. It gained its name from a legend that the Greeks won a war by hiding in a big wooden horse to get into some fortified city. In computer terms a Trojan horse is defined as a malicious, security breaking program that is disguised, such as a screen saver, game, or program, to get inside your computer.

You might have heard of the 'Love Bug' last year (2000)?, well that was a trojan..!!

Unlike viruses, a trojan does not spread itself across to other files in your computer, but they are just as destructive! For all you know you could be downloading an anti-virus program, instead its a program that fills your computer up with all sorts of viruses. Or when you connect to the Net a program can run itself in the back ground and sending out all your passwords to someone!!


Trojans can:

* Erase or Modify files.

* Steal your passwords.

* Allow a user (who could be anywhere in the world) to take over your computer, basically he can do anything you can do (such as view your emails/files, run other programs, shut down your computer etc).

* It can also spread itself by sending itself to all the people in your address book.


Some popular anti-virus programs can pick up the more popular trojans, but NOT all.

First step of avoiding in getting a trojan on your computer, is never accept files from other people who you dont trust over the Internet. However, even files that your friends send, unknown to them, can have a trojan. Trojans can be attached to other harmless programs and they split from that file once it has been run.

So therefore you can never be sure of a file, so the next best method is installing an 'anti-trojan' program.

The Cleaner is such a program, it works like any anti-virus program.
It's very user friendly, you dont need to do anything, just hit the scan butto
n and let it find and wipe out any trojans on your computer. It will show you the list of trojans it finds and then with a smile you can terminate them all..!!

It has an optional real-time detector, which will be monitoring in the background, so if you run a suspicious file, you will be warned straight away. The file would be stopped from running and you have the option of deleting it OR removing the trojan from a harmless program.

It has an auto-update facility, where you can download the latest trojan definitions as well as any new updates for the program.

If you have Norton Anti-virus, you will notice the similarity in the way it works.

The Cleaner is 100% trojan horse detection and removal program. It is NOT an anti-virus (yes, there is a difference), so therefore it wont detect any viruses!!

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