Trojan Demo by Bufferzone can simulate the simple but scary effects of a Trojan. It allows you to test your computers security software as it attempts to access a list of files from your documents and display them in your browser.

If you run this program and your security software leaps in and prevents it from happening, then great, if not there may be a couple of reasons why.

1/. The trojan has worked and your security software isn’t too good.

2/. You have a very good virus scanner but this isn’t detected by the scanner as it’s seen as a testing tool…

If your security software jumps in and detects this tool immediately this may not be too great necessarily neither – why?

If your software relies on signatures alone it may not pick up the next slightly different non publicly available Trojan.

If the tool was detected because of it’s bad behaviour though…looking at your files…displaying them on a web page etc… then your software may be protecting you in a behaviour based way.

I am running Microsoft Security Essentials – signatures only. I also have PCTools Threatfire..behaviour based monitoring.

Threatfire caught it and MSE did not.

Conclusion… Layered Security is usually best in my opinion.

I’m not saying install threatfire –  although I like it, but maybe have a good firewall at least.

Trustware Free Trojan Demo

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