Impact of ICT on Society

Virus

Name : Ranjeta Muniandy

Class : 4 PA 2

Ic no : 960121105692

Group Members : Ng Ka Yi

Lim Bao Qing

ContentsContents

• About Trojan Horse

• Types of Trojan horse payloads

• Example Trojan Horse

• Conclusion

• Reference

• The End

About Trojan Horse

• Trojan Horse is a computer program that performs a useful

task at the same time carry out some secret desctrucive act.

Trojan hores spread by human interaction. The contents of a

trojan horse is a virus and a worm. Trojan horse is used as

spyware.

• A trojan horse is a computer program that act as regular

programs, such as game, disk utility,and even antivirus

program. But if it runs, it can do malicious things to your

computer.

• For example, a Trojan horse might appear to be computer

game, but once you double clik it, the program starts wirting

over certain parts of your hard disk, corrupting your data

Types of Trojan horse payloads

Trojan horse payloads are almost always designed to do various harmful things, but could be harmless. They are broken down in classification based on how they breach systems and the damage they cause.

• The seven main types of Trojan horse payloads are: 1. Remote Access (designed to provied the attacker with complete control of the victim‘s system) 2. Data Destructive Email Sending (designed to destroy and delete files) 3. Downloader (download manager for Microsoft Windows) 4. Proxy Trojan (disguising others as the infected computer) 5. FTP Trojan (adding or copying data from the infected computer) 6. Security software disabler (designed stop or kill security programs such as antivirus program or firewall without the user knowing) 7. URL Trojan (directing the infected computer to only connect to the internet via an expensive dial-up connection)

Example Trojan Horse

Conclusion

• Computer virus can affect the computer system. It

can copy itself and infect a computer without

permission or knowledge of the user.

Reference

• http://www.iriscan.com/basic.htm • http://www.i.are.talk.com/htm • http://www.slideshare.com/htm • http://www.slideshare.nets/htm

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