Trojan horse

A Trojan can be sent as a file and can be combined with a game or a program. When you open the Trojan you cannot tell you have opened anything. The person who is hacking you will need your IP address in order to get into your computer then they can do what they want with your computer and even listen and look at your though your web cam.

A Trojan can be deleted by downloading a program called Trojan remover. But there is a easy way to avoid downloading viruses and that is to only take files from people you know and do not accept .exe files which are between 300kb and 400kb.

The worm

The worm is sent to you in email form and can say things like Hi ill reply to your email ASAP but until then you can view some pictures by downloading my zips and viewing my files. Then when you open the zips a message will come up.

Then the worm can go though all the files on your computer and delete or damage them whenever they want to. The worm can be deleted by….

Removal Instructions of the worm

Symantec Security Response has provided a small utility named Kill_ez to remove the virus from memory and undo the changes made by the worm.
If you want to remove this worm manually, follow these steps:

• If you are running Windows 95/98:

1. Open the Win.ini file in a text editor such as the System Configuration Editor (Sysedit.exe).
2. Remove the command C:\Windows\System\Explore.exe or C:\Windows\System\_Setup.exe from the run= line.
3. Restart the computer.
4. Delete Explore.exe from the C:\Windows\System folder.

• If you are running Windows NT:

1. Start the Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).
   2. Navigate to the following key:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNTCurrentVersion\Windows\Run
   
   and remove the entry that refers to "Explore.exe" or _setup.exe."
   
   3. Restart the computer, or kill the process using Task Manager or Process View (if the file is currently in use.)
   4. Delete Explore.exe from the C:\Winnt\System32 folder.