What is a Trojan horse PSW?
PSW Trojans: This family of Trojans steals passwords, normally system passwords from victim machines. They search for system files which contain confidential information such as passwords and Internet access telephone numbers and then send this information to an email address coded into the body of the Trojan. It will then be retrieved by the ‘master’ or user of the illegal program. Some PSW Trojans steal other types of information such as: System details (memory, disk space, operating system details) Local email client IP-address Registration details Passwords for on-line games Downloader.Trojan is a program that downloads another malicious program from a remote Internet site and executes it on the local system. Threat level is low and it is easy to remove.
