Current Use
Due to the popularity of botnets among hackers and the availability of advertising services that permit authors to violate their users' privacy, Trojan horses are becoming more common. According to a survey conducted by BitDefender from January to June 2009, "Trojan-type malware is on the rise, accounting for 83-percent of the global malware detected in the world." This virus has a relationship with worms as it spreads with the help given by worms and travel across the internet with them.
Their main purpose is to make its host system open to access through the internet.
BitDefender also states that approximately 15% of computers are members of a botnet - usually an effect of a Trojan infection.
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