Concept in Definition ABC

A representation of what the horse of Troy, inside it was hollow and it carried the enemy that supposed the doom for the city after many battles. Today this simile is used for a program that spies on us.

The term takes us to the history of Greece where a huge horse was left by the Greeks as a reminder of the war they had fought. Unfortunately for the Trojans the horse was hollow and full of Greek soldiers who during the night did not They hesitated to open the gates of the walled city of Troy and thus leave it defenseless against the hosts Greek.
Since then, a Trojan is known as an infiltrator who pretends to be what he is not, in order to harm the person in whom he is staying. On computing A Trojan is a program that claims to pretend something, to later collect information from our computers and from In this way, find out keys to our online banking or our credit cards in order to leave us without money. You can also leave control of our computer in the hands of someone we do not want and who publishes things on social networks that we are not interested in, etc.

The normal thing to protect yourself is to use a good antivirus and when browsing suspicious sites, use a guest account. The Windows PC guest account does not allow you to install programs but it does allow one to download music and watch movies online etc. Trojans usually come from unpopular websites and also via portable drives usb. The most common infections or infiltrations usually occur when visiting erotic content pages that are not subject to a normative regulated because they are in countries whose laws do not require them to comply with all regulations. A Trojan is difficult to detect as it usually waits or incubate for a few days (sometimes even months) until it manifests itself.

If our computer is used for online banking and purchases through the Internet, it is important to have a good antivirus and run the virus scan at least once a month.

Its expansion is more for the Windows platform. Many believe that by using Linux or Mac they are safer because they believe that their system is more secure. What happens is that programming a Trojan is complicated and you have to specify which one operating system It is aimed. A Trojan programmed for Windows will not work on the mac platform. As most of the computers are Windows platform, they are programmed for this platform because there is more possibility that someone unintentionally download the app that the Trojan hides.