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"Trojan Horses"
I recently bought a new computer which came with firewall software pre-installed (first time I've ever had one).
About two or three times in the last two weeks, I've received warnings saying that Trojan Horses were blocked. The help file is not very helpful in describing what is really going on here.
Is someone somewhere actually trying to hack into my computer, or is the software catching something more benign and sensationalizing? I'm thinking it's probably more of the latter, since (to my knowledge) I've never had anything dangerous to my computer sent to me before I had the firewall, and I've never even gotten a virus except onto floppys which were cought from school lab computers (caught when I tried loading them on my home computer).
Anyone have any insight what's probably going on here?
Thanks!
vv techno weenie vv
I recently bought a new computer which came with firewall software pre-installed (first time I've ever had one).
About two or three times in the last two weeks, I've received warnings saying that Trojan Horses were blocked. The help file is not very helpful in describing what is really going on here.
Is someone somewhere actually trying to hack into my computer, or is the software catching something more benign and sensationalizing? I'm thinking it's probably more of the latter, since (to my knowledge) I've never had anything dangerous to my computer sent to me before I had the firewall, and I've never even gotten a virus except onto floppys which were cought from school lab computers (caught when I tried loading them on my home computer).
Anyone have any insight what's probably going on here?
Thanks!
vv techno weenie vv