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Old Dec 19th, 07, 5:29 PM
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What does this do and do I need to be concerned? It is in a program I downloaded but have not yet installed.
I really don't know what trojans do.
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Old Dec 19th, 07, 5:42 PM
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I would really suggest deleting that file.

Trojans are viruses that do some pretty bad stuff to your computer. In fact, if you have an anti virus program I would suggest running a full scan of your system. It could have installed something on your computer that you did not know about...



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Update your anti-virus before running the scan. You r anti-virus should have caught the trojan and stopped it form installing in the 1st place.

And to answer your question about what a trojan is:

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a Trojan horse, or simply trojan, is a piece of software which appears to perform a certain action but in fact performs another. Contrary to popular belief, this action, usually encoded in a hidden payload, may or may not be acutely malicious, but Trojan horses are notorious today for their use in the installation of backdoor programs. Simply put, a Trojan horse is not a computer virus. Unlike such badware, it does not propagate by self-replication but relies heavily on the exploitation of an end-user (see Social engineering). It is instead a categorical attribute which can encompass many different forms of codes. Therefore, a computer worm or virus may be a Trojan horse. The term is derived from the classical myth of the Trojan Horse. In the field of computer architecture, 'Trojan Horse' can also refer to security loopholes that allow kernel code to access anything for which it is not authorized.



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Old Dec 19th, 07, 6:37 PM
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Update your anti-virus before running the scan. You r anti-virus should have caught the trojan and stopped it form installing in the 1st place.

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Thank you so much for the detailed answer. I have deleted the program. It was never installed yet. AVG caught it, but I didn't know what it was. I sure do now
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