By: Aaron Manshire
Submitted: 2010-08-27 16:40:05 | Word Count: 628
A Trojan Horse virus is a kind of harmful viruses, or programs, that can affect your laptop in a number of negative ways, causing harm to your system and possibly put your personal information at jeopardy. Trojans get onto your system disguised as or packed with relatively benign programs, like screensavers and image managers, that infect your laptop at installation. You are able to get a trojan by running a file or installing a program which has one hidden inside. Trojans can cause everything from irritating popups, browser hijaking, to backdoors being placed in your firewall software.
Virus Software - Most pcs feature at least a demo edition of security suites, and in case you have one installed you ought to use it to scan your personal computer. In case you don't have one, download one and then run it. Since most trojans can disseminate themselves on your disk drive it's important to delete the file once discovered, not simply put it in quarantine. There are a number of free virus programs which are really quite powerful. If you want more special features, to be able to have extra control over your laptop security or scans, you can find numerous fine pay suites. HouseCall and Trend Microboth operate from web browsers instead of your system, trojans have a harder time remaining undetected.
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Manual Detection - If your anti-virus freezes or is unable to remove the trojans you will need to go at it manually. You can look at the anti-virus log to see if it found any suspicious files which may give a clue where to go to route the problem out. Check your process manager by pressing control alt delete to see if there is anything odd runnin on your system. . If anything stands out it's alright to stop the process .
Community boards - Sometimes you are able to find technical support message boards which can help, although often frustrating as well if virtually any of the members are trolls. Most of the boards have a search function so you'll be able to look for information, or will sometimes have a special thread for malware. Word to the wise, don't be the first to try the fix. Wait until someone a lot more experienced has confirmed that it works to avoid which causes undue damage to your own computer. Usually you'll be able to tell easily if people think the suggested process is effective.
Take into account that because trojans are labeled not for what they do, or how they hide on your system but by how they get on your laptop, not every single suggestion you will find will be applicable to your situation.
OS Reinstall - Here's the last ditch, Hail Mary, tried everything else alternative. It's extreme, but even the best and brightest of the malware removal world have had no other recourse but to do it. Attention, make positive you have every thing backed up before starting this. Even though your restore program says it can move through the process and retain all of your files, this really is one time where being safe in no way hurts and being sorry usually does. Reinstalling your operating system can take hours, but your computer will run as smoothly as it did when you first got it, so at least you have that to look forward to.
If at almost any point in the trojan virus removal process you have questions or are not confident how to proceed it is highly advisable that you speak with a tech support specialist.
Author Resource:-Virus removal is easier when you have access to a specialist. With a technical support you can always have an ally in combating adware and spyware along with other technical problems.
