This new release incorporates many new sophisticated features that will prove to be very beneficial in the fight against malicious code. Tauscan is a universal Trojan Horse scanner that can detect and remove almost 1800 Trojan Horse viruses that may have infected a user's system. That figure is almost three times the number the majority of competitor products in the same class purport to remove. Although Trojan Horses do not replicate in the same way that other computer viruses do, they can be just as dangerous because they allow a remote user located anywhere in the world, unrestricted access to an unsuspecting user's machine. For example, an intruder can steal the user's credit card details and then sell them on to a third party.
Backdoors can also record the keystrokes needed to type a password to a restricted site.
The Trojan then transmits the information to the remote user. Backdoors often incorporate user-friendly interfaces which means that very little technical knowledge or skill is required to install and then use them. Even a child could cause havoc to a system by rebooting the machine when the user is in the middle of writing an important document for example. Worse still, all these processes are completely hidden from the user. Firewalls and Antiviral software don t address the threat of Trojan Horses properly and that has resulted in an explosion of rogue applications in recent times.