Tech Straight Talk

With the spread of broadband connections, viruses and trojans are a lot of talk right now. Indeed, it has become increasingly easy to break into the machines of individuals, not familiar with security techniques and whose machines are sometimes connected to the Internet 24 hours a day. We will see in this article how to better know these programs which can be devastating and especially to study some simple techniques to protect themselves from them. Without sinking into paranoia. Definitions and concepts What is a virus? A virus is a computer program that can spread autonomously from machine to machine and from file to file. What is a Trojan? A trojan, or trojan horse or even trojan, is a computer program which is installed by masking itself in another healthy program. It does not generally reproduce and is used as a base (server) to allow intrusions on a machine. The number of Trojans is as impressive as the variety of actions they allow. Some simply open access to the infes...