What are Trojan Horses and Malware?
They are software designed to attack your system. The Trojan Horse type uses the strategy of planting a seemingly harmless or essential file on your PC that really introduces hidden disruptive or destructive agents, like the wooden monument filled with enemy soldiers in the ancient story. The bait can be an unexpected email attachment (red flag: think twice before opening!) or a clickable link at a web page. Malware is any malicious software including viruses, worms, rootkits and more. Like their names indicate, they spread, drill holes in system security and set up hidden foundations for adding invasive software. Why do these exist? Mainly because they can. Renegade programmers develop them for reasons ranging from proof of their abilities to the committing of internet crimes for profit.
