How to Detect & Remove a Trojan Horse
Finding a Trojan horse virus on your system without the aid of anti-virus software can be nearly impossible. A well-written virus can cover its track so that none but the most technically savvy virus hunters could find it without any help. By modifying your system register, piggybacking on legitimate programs and actively blocking attempts to find it, a Trojan horse can go undetected on your system for months, all the while gathering your personal info or using your network connection to send out thousands of spam emails a day. Fortunately there are many free anti-virus packages you can obtain to help find and eliminate a Trojan horse.
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Instructions
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Finding and Removing a Trojan Horse Virus
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Use Trend Micros Housecall to perform a free online virus scan of your PC. After downloading and installing the scan launcher, Housecall will perform a complete check of your file system and registry for the presence of a Trojan horse or any form of virus. If one is detected you will be prompted for what action to take against the infected file or setting.
Visit Trend Micro Housecall at the following address: http://housecall.trendmicro.com
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Install AVG free on your computer to find and remove many different types of viruses, including the Trojan horse virus, that may be on your PC. AVG will guard your file system and your Windows registry as well as performing a scan of hyperlinks on web pages that you visit. If a hyperlink goes to a page that AVG believes is infected with a Trojan horse, you will be warned as soon as you click on the link.
Obtain AVG free at the following address:
http://free.avg.com/us-en/get-basic-protection.
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Protect your system from Trojan horses and other forms of malicious software by installed avast! anti-virus. This free anti-virus software package comes with several different modules to provide protect for your file system, email, Windows registry, and web browsers. Every time you connect to the Internet, avast! will update its files and virus definitions so that it is always on guard against the latest threats.
Obtain avast by visiting the following address:
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
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Use Spybot Search & Destroy to protect your computer from the harm caused by Trojan horses. Spybot Search & Destroy can find and remove many different strains of viruses and is also engineered to guard against malware and adware. Spybot Search & Destroy also immunizes your Web browsers against future attacks.
Download Spybot Search & Destroy from:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
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Tips & Warnings
Never open an email attachment unless you know the person or company who sent it.
Always keep a backup of important documents and data files on a device that is separate from your computer.
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