Gain knowledge on the Trojan horse virus and spam blocker software

A trojan horse is a program which appears to be something good, but actually conceals something bad. If you own a desktop or laptop computer, you are vulnerable to getting a trojan horse virus either now or in the future, or there's a very good possibility you have one in your computer now! Simply buying a good spam blocker software will certainly stop e-mails coming in that possibly could carry this virus. Junk mail is notorious for carrying viruses. The Trojan horse is inside normal software. In 2002, the sendmail and OpenSSH packages were both used to hide the trojan horse virus. The attacker essentially broke into the distribution sites for these software packages and replaced the original distributions with the trojan horse virus packages. Unless you have a spam blocker piece of software, the trojan horse usually is embedded in an e-mail sent to the victim with an attachment called something like prettygirls.exe. When the attachment to the e-mail is opened the trojan horse will infect your system. You can also pick up Trojan horses when you send files to unsuspecting users over chat systems like AIM, ICQ, MSN, IRC OR Yahoo messenger.

Trojan Horse FAQS

How do I avoid getting a Trojan horse?

To begin with, never download information blindly from sites or people you aren't 100% sure about. Unfortunately, if you do a lot of file downloading from other sites, it is just a matter of time before you fall victim to a trojan horse. Even if you have good spam blocker software, you're still making an actual connection to another site.

If I receive a file from a friend can I be sure that the file is OK before opening it?

• Regardless of where the file originates, a trojan horse virus will automatically try to spread itself to friends in an e-mail address book or on an IRC channel. After all, there is seldom a reason that a friend would send you a file unless you asked for it. When in doubt of any file, scan the attachment with a fully- updated virus program first.

The term spam refers to any unsolicited bulk e-mail. Unsolicited means that the recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message to be sent. And the term bulk means that the message is sent as part of a large collection of messages that all have substantively identical content. This is where you need spam blocker software!

Spam Blocker FAQS

Where did the term spam come from?

• Yes, believe it or not the original term did come from the lunch meat that gained popularity in the last century.

Why is spam e-mail bad?

• In 2001, it is estimated that e-mail spam cost $130 billion and the cost continues to go up. It doesn't cost the spammer much to send a note and in turn they get huge exposure. That is why you get so much spam in your inbox.

Why do I need a good spam blocker program?

• To begin with, it would certainly give you a level of protection against receiving any trojan horse virus or any other malicious viruses into your computer or laptop. There are some tremendous benefits including blocking e-mail using both lists and preset filters, create custom filters, update internal filters automatically, quarantine spam outside of your inbox, monitor and filter multiple e-mail accounts, import friends automatically into your safe list and lastly, fight back against spammers and people who spread the trojan horse.

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