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What is the name of a virus that appears to be legitimate program?
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∙ 11y ago
A Trojan Horse. Trojan Horse programs disguise themselves as legitimate programs and then infect your computer when you download them unwittingly, expecting to get a cool new PC game or such. They run malicious processes in the backround without you knowing and generally open up a backdoor or trapdoor to the internet to download more viruses on your computer without your permission. Usually you can find Trojans by looking on Task Manager. You may find names of programs you don't know or have weird names. Be careful when taskkilling programs, one may end up being useful.
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What is the name of the virus that appers to be a legitimate program?
Do you mean the actual name of a virus or the classification of it? Well, for the latter, a virus that conceals itself or appears to be a legitimate program is called a Trojan.
What is the name of the virus that appears to be legitimate program but when opened it can steal passwords or data?
Trojan
What was the name of the virus that appears to be a legitimate program but when opened it can steal passwords or destroy data?
Trojan horse
What is the name of the virus that appears to be legitimate program but opened it can steal passwords and destroy data?
These are Trojans, i.e. programs that pretend being legitimate programs, but in fact are malicious. It is not a single program, but category of programs.
What is the name of the virus that appers to be a legitimate program but when opened it can steal passwords and it has a name?
there are too many to name but that is the most comman virus sorry if that doesnt help
What is the name of the viruses that appears to be a legitimate program but when opened it can steal passwords or destroy data?
Trojans are pieces of malware that are downloaded by the user because they believe it is a useful program, but cause harm instead.
What is the name of the virus that appears to be a legitimate program but when opened it can steal passwords or destroy data?
The name it's given is called a Trojan virus taken from the Trojan war with worriors inside a giant wooden horse that was a given as a gift.
What is the name of a free program offering a Trojan virus remover?
The name of the program that is offering a free Trojan virus remover is Trojan Virus. One can download a free trial from their website which is 'trojan-remover'.
What name is given to a program designed to cause damage by attaching its self to other programs?
virus
Full name of virus?
Virus is short for Vital Information Resources under Seize. It is a man made program that is harmful to a computer.
What is the name of the virus that in 1988 a very common virus was unleashed it is activated every Friday on the thirteenth and deletes any program used that day?
The Friday the 13th virus.
What is the name of the program that copies itself repeatedly and thus using up the system resources?
A virus
