Trojan is one of the species of computer viruses that can infect your computer in a number of ways. Its replication rate is very high and therefore you must take guard against it and look for its removal from your system in the most effective manner possible. The name 'Trojan' is inspired from a Greek legend known as the Trojan horse. It is a malware that makes your computer vulnerable against online threats.
Trojans camouflage themselves as harmless programs or useful files but in fact they become the means of numerous infections caused due to several forms of malicious software, keyloggers, spyware etc. This makes it easy for its authors to steal important information including credit card details by allowing unauthorized access to cyber criminals. The most alarming part that is played by Trojan viruses is that not only it steals your information but also opens the gate for other threats to infect your system. So it becomes very important to know about the ways of removing these harmful viruses from your system immediately after the infection.
Below mentioned are the five ways of getting rid of Trojan viruses:
1. The first thing you need to do is to ensure that your system is installed with updated antivirus software including all important patches. This is the first line of defense against Trojans.
2. You should run a system as well as a registry scan to identify the deceptive Trojans so that they can be removed before they cause harm to the computer. Once you identify the virus through scanning it becomes easy to remove them because they usually reside within an unimportant file. On the contrary it is not easy to remove other viruses as they need to be quarantined to stop them infecting the entire system.
3. It is helpful to know the name of the particular Trojan that your system has been infected with. You can go online and search for information about the virus and get clues about how to remove them from the system. You can also deal with such viruses with the Microsoft updates as they reveal the ways by which to prevent infections on Windows-based computers. Online forums are also helpful in providing useful tips to remove Trojans.
4. You can manually remove Trojans from your system with the help of the Task Manager. You can access the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl
