Q&A: Why do trojan horses seem to be the most popular computer virus?
Question by Kristin: Why do trojan horses seem to be the most popular computer virus?
Cause whenever my Antivirus blocks something, it’s usually a trojan horse that it blocks. Is the trojan horse easy for hackers to make or something? Why is it the most present computer virus?
Best answer:
Answer by VE9A
trojans are a type of virus masquerading as something else, they are also the easiest to socially engineer.
In other words a hacker can write a tasty peice of code call it amazingLesbians.exe an stick it on the internet it’s bound to get a few hits.
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Because hackers are trying to steal sensitive data such as credit cards numbers or bank accounts, they are trying to steal your money by this way.
trojan horse spreads through internet.it is not the most present computer virus just because u hav got it.it transmits ur personal data to remote servers.most present viruses are worms.they spread through internet ,cd’s,and removable drives.
Trojan horses are spyware. They write spyware, hoping that it will get into as many systems as possible, so they can get vital information (which most people have) off your pc and use it for their own benefit (i.e banking details, credit card numbers) via remote hacking. Which means that they can have (full) control of you system
A Trojan Horse is an email virus usually released by an email attachment.” Not so. A Trojan may be sent as an attachment in email, but it’s certainly not an email virus. (In fact there are few true email viruses, but that’s a whole other topic). So it may or may not arrive in email, and it’s equally likely to have been downloaded from a website or resulted from a P2P file transfer. In other words, vector has nothing to do with whether something is or isn’t a Trojan.
Just what is a Trojan then? A Trojan is a program that appears to be legitimate, but in fact does something malicious. Quite often, that something malicious involves gaining remote, surreptitious access to a user’s system. Unlike viruses, a Trojan does not replicate (i.e. infect other files), nor does it make copies of itself as worms do