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TROJAN HORSE
A Trojan horse or Trojan is a type of malware that is often disguised as legitimate software. Trojans can be
employed by cyber-thieves and hackers trying to gain access to users' systems. Users are typically tricked by
some form of social engineering into loading and executing Trojans on their systems. Once activated, Trojans
can enable cyber-criminals to spy on you, steal your sensitive data, and gain backdoor access to your system.
These actions can include:
 Deleting data • Modifying data
 Blocking data • Copying data
Disrupting the performance of computers or computer networks
Unlike computer viruses and worms, Trojans are not able to self-replicate.
 A backdoor is a means to access a computer A rootkit is a malicious software that allows an
system or encrypted data that bypasses the unauthorized user to have privileged access to a
system's customary security mechanisms. A computer and to restricted areas of its software. A
developer may create a backdoor so that an rootkit may contain a number of malicious tools such as
application or operating system can be key loggers, banking credential stealers, password
accessed for troubleshooting or other stealers, antivirus disablers, and bots for Dados attacks.
purposes.

Its purpose is to steal your account data for online banking systems, e-
payment systems and credit or debit cards.

This is used to install Trojans and other viruses into the computer.
This can also conceal detection of malicious programs. If you're
using a weak or outdated antivirus, some of them can't scan all of
the components inside this type of Trojan horse virus.

This Trojan horse virus can start up the Denial of

Service (DoS) attacks. Not only it can affect Released into the wild on November 2, 1988, the Morris
endpoints, but also websites. By sending multiple Worm was originally made in order to gauge the size of the
requests – from your computer and several other Internet. However, a coding flaw in the program has
infected computers – the attack can overload the inadvertently turned it into an extremely damaging, resource-
target address which leads to a denial of service. hogging program capable of bogging down a computer
system by infecting it multiple times.

A bait-and-switch, faux-porn-list worm that nearly shut

down the entire worldwide web when it was released in
1999, Melissa's promise of providing free access to over
eighty porno sites enabled it to spread across the mailboxes
of affection-starved individuals and mass mail itself into
thousands of recipients in a short period of time.
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havoc in autumn of 2001 by infecting an assortment
of Microsoft computers via an email-based exploit.
Because of the fact that it shares characteristics with
all the major malware ever developed, Nidi was able
to propagate itself in a rapid rate by modifying
configurations to become more vulnerable and
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This virus lives in certain links, ads, image

placement, videos, and layout of a website. These
may carry malicious codes in which when you
click, the viruses will be automatically downloaded
or will direct you to malicious websites. From the name itself, this virus overwrites the content of a
file, losing the original content. It infects folders, files, and
even programs. To delete this virus, you also need to get rid
of your file. Thus, it is important to back up your data.

VIRUS
Macro viruses target applications and software
that contain macros. These viruses can carry out
series of operations affecting the performance of
the program or software. Some examples of
macro viruses are O97M/Y2K, Babbles, Melissa.
A, and Relax.