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WHAT IS A TROJAN ?
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The purpose of Anti-Trojan software is to detect trojan horses, remove them and repair damage caused by them. Some personal firewalls block trojans from phoning home and some Anti-Virus software products detect and remove some of them. From the information available online, it is not clear that Anti-Virus software alone provides adequate protection from trojans. Note: An Anti-Trojan product should be used in addition to, but not instead of, Anti-Virus software.
In addition to protecting your computer from becoming a slave for a hacker or script kiddie DoS attack (see Steve Gibson's case study June 2001), using Anti-Trojan software may prevent a situation where you have to do a clean install of Windows, all of your software, and your data files (you are making regular back ups of your critical data files, right?).
In an emergency, try using a trial version of Anti-Virus software followed by using specific malware removal tools and/or trial versions of The Cleaner, PC DoorGuard, PestPatrol,Tauscan and/or the Trojan Defense Suite Anti-Trojan software. Note: After downloading trial Anti-Virus or Anti-Trojan software, immediately check for updates at the vendor's site before using.
For background information on viruses, worms and trojan horses, see Know Your Enemy, Brett Glass, PC Magazine, May 8, 2001; How It Works: Viruses, Kim Zetter, PC World, October 13, 2000; When Viruses Attack, Kyle Schurman, Smart Computing, April 2000, and An Introduction to Viruses and Malicious Code, Brad Griffin, SecurityFocus.com, November 6, 2000. A good resource for anti-virus links is Computer Viruses on Northern Light.
Anti-Trojan Comparative Reviews
Wilders.org review of BOClean, Tauscan, The Cleaner, and TDS-3, July 29, 2001
Dark Eclipse review of Tauscan, The Cleaner, and TDS-3 Tommy Rush, March 3, 2001.
PC Flank review of The Best Tools to neutralize Trojan horses, August 2001 (?): Anti-Trojan -- The Cleaner, TDS, Tauscan, PestPatrol & PC DoorGuard; and Anti-Virus -- Kaspersky, McAfee, Norton, Panda & Dr Web.
Note: For unknown reasons, no "major" computer web sites or magazines such as CNet, ZDNet, PC Magazine, PC World, or Smart Computing have done comparative testing of Anti-Trojan software. Comparative testing by the vendors always concludes that their product is the best probably, in part. because they are using their own databases of Trojan horses as the basis for their tests. It is also important to note that the ability to detect Trojans is not the same as being able to remove them or to fix the damage that they have caused.
Trojan Horse Detection Tests
Trojan Checkmark test results.
Hackfix.org
Anti-Virus software comparison chart for AVP, AVX, Command, EZ Anti-Virus (formerly InoculateIT PE), McAfee, Norton, Norman & PC-cillin; August 2001.
Anti-Trojan software comparison chart for The Cleaner, PC DoorGuard, PestPatrol, Tauscan and TDS-2; September 2001.
Trojan Horse Articles
Fast-spreading code is weapon of choice for Net vandals, Robert Lemos, CNET, March 15, 2001; note -- also read the sidebar "Breaking the species code".
Is Your PC Safe From the Enemy Within? Cameron Crouch and Sean Captain, PC World, April 2001 (posted February 27)
The Dark Side Of Scripts, Kyle Schurman, How The Internet Works, Part 1, Smart Computing, February 2001
Firewalls Plug Holes Revealed by Security Test, Cameron Crouch, PC World, January 30, 2001.
Deconstructing SubSeven, the Trojan Horse of Choice, Jamie Crapanzano, SANS Institute, January 8, 2001
Privacy and Security on the Internet: Network Security and Trojan Software, SF Kinney, last update January 7, 2001.
Webattack review of LeakTest, December 12, 2000
LeakTest, Steve Gibson, December 2000
Trojan Horse Attacks, Joseph Lo, June 4, 2000
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