Trojan horses threaten to defraud home PCs users when accessing online bank accounts and e-tail sites, or simply to steal their identities. When it finds a Trojan, it quarantines it, stops it functioning and then removes it.
Bell explained that the software identifies Trojan horses based on a signature or a pattern. An Australian software developer is considering suing McAfee after the antivirus company wrongly identified his internet setup program as a Trojan horse in...
Mobile phone antivirus software company SimWorks reported on Wednesday that 52 new Trojan horses are hidden inside several different games and other readily available mobile phone software. The Trojan horses target only mobiles that use Symbian, an...
Dan Hubbard, senior director at Websense Security Labs, said: "Attackers are already using the JView Profiler flaw to download and install Trojan horses on victims' machines. The Trojan horses would let the miscreants remotely control the hijacked...
Kurt Sauer, Skype chief security officer, said on Friday: "Harmful viruses and Trojan horses may damage a user's computer and collect private data, regardless of whether a person is using Skype, email or IM clients.
He said in the statement: "Harmful viruses and Trojan horses may damage a user's computer and collect private data, regardless of whether a person is using Skype, email or other IM clients. Last month, miscreants adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to...