Trojan Horse - Things you need to know

The malware ecosystem is thriving every passing day. In this age of digital technology, antivirus software plays a crucial role in defending the system from the malware. But there a certain league of viruses that still remain untraceable and hard to defend. One such virus is called Trojan.

Well, to be frank, Trojan is not new to the computer world. In fact, it has been in existence for decades. Trojans are deceptive in nature and they never attack system in a conventional way, unlike other malware.

Trojans is not an automatically generated malicious code. It is deliberately prepared by the highly skilled cyber criminal with an end goal to bypass the system firewall easily, without leaving any trace. Trojan can intrude the system security via email (through an attachment), spammed website and malicious code.

Types of Trojan horse malware

Once gets on board, Trojans can do the damage beyond the user’s imagination. It merely takes a minute for a Trojan to infect all of the system’s drive. Norton developer Symantec has displayed the list of Trojans on their website which is still available for the users. We will try to mention a few of them here.

Backdoor Trojans - This category of Trojan is meant to create the hole in the system’s defense so that cyber criminal can breach it easily.

Downloader Trojans - Downloader Trojans attacks the user’s system in the form of a malicious code that users mistakenly download from the hacker site.

Rootkit Trojans- Rootkit is a kind of program which is meant to gain control over system’s admin right. Rootkits can disintegrate any sort of security program in minutes and take control of the system in minutes.

Banking Trojans - As the name suggest banking Trojans are particularly programmed to steal financial related data. 

Ransomware Trojans - it is the most furious form of Trojan that users have encountered yet. Like its siblings, ransomware Trojans follow the same approach to intrude the system. Once get on board, this category of Trojan start the encrypting the user’s files and demand monetary ransom to recoup them back.