Introduction
Did you just buy yourself a new windows for your laptop or your desktop? Are you worried about getting viruses and worms that’ll mess up your system and make you lose most or all of your data? Well you’re not wrong to be worried. There are many viruses out there that could easily threaten your window. What windows virus is most threatening to a PC without proper security measures? There’s the I love you virus, the my doom, blaster, Trojan , new folder and so many more coming in through your spam mail, your infected flash drives and sometimes even your friends e-mail. Of course all of these viruses or most of them can simply be removed with a good anti-virus or prevented through other security measures but what windows virus is most threatening to users today, in the windows 7 with all its secure firewalls and protection. What worm or virus could infect our system?
History
Recently there was an article reporting a potentially dangerous virus infecting the systems of nearly 7 hundred thousand users. The virus knows as the Zeus Trojan horse. It’s a variant of the original Trojan horse but only this time it’s much more dangerous. Where exactly does this virus attack you? The virus basically uses key logging and form grabbing software to record your keystrokes and send them back to the original virus creator. Now what possible use could this have? Facebook passwords, e-mails, personal letters? NO, Zeus Trojan virus steals banking information from your computer. Every time you log on to your bank account through your online account the virus records the key strokes and sends back your username and password to the hacker, who is then free to access your account and transfer all your money to another account. What windows virus could do you more harm?
Features
So how exactly is the Zeus Trojan virus spread? It is spread mainly through drive-by downloads. You could also have gotten it through phishing schemes. In 2009 Facebook reported that nearly 1.5 million phishing messages were sent for the sole purpose of spreading the Trojan Virus. Today this virus is more custom build and even used in peer to peer networks for stealing information. Hence all users need to be very careful and special precautions to avoid downloading this virus. Because of its extreme stealthy codes, Most anti-virus programs cannot detect the Zeus Trojan virus. This is probably the main reason why this virus is the most dangerous worm out there for Windows. So what windows precautions can you take? Always use secure gateways and websites access to web pages and always leave your accounts logged off. Keep aware that you don’t follow any links to pages from spam e-mail, in fact if you don’t know the sender don’t bother opening the mail at all even if it says you’ve won a million dollars. No one just gives away a million dollars for free so don’t worry you haven’t missed out on anything. Symantec has claimed that it’s antivirus can up to some level detect variations of the Trojan virus and even the Zeus virus but still remains very unclear if the modern virus can so easily be removed, especially since the creator seems to be releasing custom build versions of the software for different attacks
Tips and comments
Hence always make sure what windows antivirus is being installed for your computer and what windows precautions you can take avoid downloading such dangerous viruses on to your system. New viruses come out every day and some may prove to be even more dangerous than this.
