Got a Trojan Horse Virus?

Trojan horse virus? What is a Trojan horse virus to start with and why should you be aware of them? How do you if you have one or not?

These are any questions that you may be asking yourself right now. The Trojan virus is on class of viruses that can affect your computer and even destroy your computer. This particular class of viruses gets its name from the Greek story of the Trojan horse.

There was a statue of a horse that was brought inside the city’s defenses and when no one was looking an army came out of it.

With most viruses you will notice your system running slower or just plain not performing as normal. When you are dealing with a Trojan virus, you will not know it is there until it has been released. The virus itself is hide within another program or file that you wanted. This was something that was popular in the early days of the MP3 craze.

People hide viruses inside the songs that you downloaded and because they were hidden within the songs they were not detected by the anti-virus programs on your system. The problem with your normal anti-virus programs is that they can only find the signatures of the known viruses.

These signatures also have to be in the open and easy to find. Most anti-virus programs work with a single pass and if a virus is piggy backed onto another program it will miss it.