Trojan Remover Apps and Alternatives

Taking their name after the famous horse of the Greek mythology, Trojans are a special type of malware that functions similarly as Odysseus's strategy. Disguising itself as a legitimate application, Trojans make their way into your computer and create an access point to an external server.

While the virus itself is harmless, the same cannot be said about the persons operating the external server. Through the backdoor that they create, they permit the collection of system information to detect vulnerabilities or perhaps, develop other viruses, spyware or ransomware. Considering the nature of the modern variations of Trojans, some can even allow hackers to take full control of your system.

Despite the efforts of security experts, most Trojans are undetectable in most systems. Consequentially, the importance of having an antivirus along with other specialized tools up to date cannot be stressed enough.

As the name suggests, Trojan removers are a specialized type of tools that are specially designed to search for and delete Trojans from your system. The modus operandi of these utilities entail a thorough scanning of the system where they get a pattern of the normal behavior. This pattern is then used to monitor files and identify potential abnormalities, such as file changes, network activity, downloading, uploading, so on and so forth.

The Trojan removers also come with functions that allow you to remove the virus and close the backdoor they create. While it can be argued that you can also do so manually, you need to spend a lot of time and effort to determine which of the applications have been infected.