Trojan And Protection Against Backdoor

Added: 10/31/2007

A Trojan is malicious software that can enter in to a computer through browsing over the internet and accessing websites for online matchmaking or mistakenly clicking on an advertisement or a banner. If you are an internet user whether a broadband or a dial up, you should always protect your computers against backdoor threats. These backdoor threats are a feature of a Trojan that damages your computer files and mess with your entire computer.

Unlike viruses Trojans do not self replicate themselves. They are spread manually letting the user believe that the setup or file they are clicking on is something legitimate and safe to execute. But those files also have a Trojan that once opened, damages a computer. A Trojan not only damages files in your hard drive, change settings of your computer, change your wallpaper but it also has a threat of creating a backdoor. A backdoor just does not give access to the hacker or internet users to your computer or delete your files and folders but they can fiddle with your computer or even find private or confidential information like your credit card number etc. Therefore, the protection against backdoor in a computer is very essential.

The main task of a Trojan carrying a backdoor is to shut down the anti-virus software running on the computer. It installs itself mutely on the computer, making sure that it’s unnoticed. The most common installation methods involve system or security mistreatment, and unsuspicious users manually executing unknown programs. This backdoor can be distributed through email attachments, peer-to-peer connection, instant messaging etc.

Now a lot of people know how one can get infected through a backdoor or the symptoms of getting one. The main issue is how to protect your computer against backdoor or to get rid of one. First thing to do is to have an anti-virus software and a anti-malware software running at all times. The user who uses internet frequently should keep those software updated at all times to avoid getting infected from old as well as new Trojans, viruses etc.

Although protecting your computer against backdoor is hard as almost none of the websites are clean to browse on except for few. So eight simple steps of removing a backdoor from your computer that might help you are:
Step 1: Click Start > Run and type Regedit.
Step 2: Select My Computer and press Ctrl + F and search for:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Step 3: In the right window, look for a registry key with a value that loads the "icqnuke.exe" file. This is the registry key that provides the ability to load the server portion of the Trojan whenever the computer is started.
Step 4: In the right window select this particular key and delete it.
Step 5: Exit the Registry.
Step 6: Click Start > Shutdown > "Restart in MS-DOS mode".
Step 7: After the computer has restarted, change to the WINDOWS or WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and delete the "icqnuke.exe" file.
Step 8: Restart your computer again.
Congratulations, you have successfully removed a backdoor from your computer.

Other ways of protection against backdoor is online scanners that scan your entire hard drive for any possible files that might be working as a backdoor and delete them off. Symantec.com is a very helpful website for virus, Trojan removal. The following website will help you a lot to remove backdoor manually: http://www.spywareremove.com/remove-Backdoors/index.html

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