How to remove a Trojan horse virus is easy, although this one spreads quickly, but there is cure.

In layman' terms, a Trojan horse virus is mutative. It has the ability to duplicate itself quickly and efficiently. It also takes a lot longer on how to remove a Trojan horse virus. There are many books today that have been produced in the PC world that take the end user of a computer on a step by step journey on how to remove a Trojan horse virus. In the local libraries as well as on the internet archives are many detailed pieces of work that tell on how to remove a Trojan horse virus. Some of the information that they offer on how to remove a Trojan horse virus is quite helpful, while others may be a bit misleading. Therefore, it is upon the end user to separate the wheat from the weed and be on the alert not to fall for those internet scams that are the order of the day today. Trojan horse viruses are dangerous and spy like. They present themselves as files that are attractive to the user and one is tempted to install them on their PC as screen savers and/or desktop backgrounds. What' more, the viruses are also named with names that the public is familiar with. For example a Trojan virus may come with a name of the latest box office hit single.

When you discern that your computer is under virus attack, the next thing is to download a scan program that has an anti virus and scan your computer system. No matter how long the scan takes, do not interrupt it. After scanning, the program will detect malicious computer ware in the system and it will ask you what you want it to do. Then you can either click the delete command or the "heal all" command. At times, the Trojan horse virus may do extensive damage to your computer before you discern it. In such cases of extreme operating system damage, it is important that you format the whole system and start reloading all the programs a new. The best thing about formatting is that all data is lost, including all viruses.

If you have your anti spy ware software in place, always make sure that you update them. This might cost you some money but it is worth it considering the value of the data that you might lose to a virus attack. It is therefore important to know that once you have updated your anti virus programs; you are half way to recovering from a Trojan horse virus attack.