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The Best Tools to neutralize Trojan horses

August 21, 2001

Selected tools
We have selected and downloaded ten leading anti-virus and anti-trojan products for our test.

Anti-Viruses

  Software Version Manufacturer Price
  Kaspersky Anti-virus   3.6.1.4 Kaspersky Labs $49.95 (1 year)
  McAfee VirusScan   5.21 McAfee $39.90 (2 year)
  Norton AntiVirus   7.01 Symantec Inc. $39.95
  Panda Antivirus   6.23.00 Panda Software $29.95
  Dr Web   4.25 SalD 25$


Anti-Trojans

  Software Version Manufacturer Price
  The Cleaner   3.2 Moosoft Development $29.95
  TDS   3.0 Diamond Computer Systems PTY Ltd $49
  Tauscan   1.6 Agnitum Ltd. $29.95
  PestPatrol   30.07.01 SaferSite Ltd. $29.95
  PC DoorGuard   2.11.2.4 Astonsoft Co. $29.95


AntiTrojan Tools Introduction
We won't consider in this review personal firewall software, as this class of programs is not able to locate and remove the Trojans from the infected computers. However, firewalls are able to block Trojan's network activity and therefore make the Trojan horse ineffective, but most users find it very difficult to properly configure firewall rules to make it effective of blocking Trojans horses. There is also a risk that rookie users may occasionally set their firewall to allow Trojan communication. As for Trojans, firewalls should be considered as valuable addition to anti-trojan tools that are able to discover a Trojan on infected machine and then remove it. These tools are so called Anti-trojan software (or just Anti-trojans) and Anti-viruses.

The main difference between AniTrojans and AntiViruses is that AntiViruses give higher priority to detection of the common viruses and only the rest is given to Trojans. Most AntiViruses do not specialize in Trojan horses. Databases used by anti-virus software contain only the most widespread Trojans.

On the other hand, AntiTrojans use the same principles as anti-virus software specializing in locating and removing of Trojans only. The makers of anti-Trojan software specialize in the research of Trojans and in detecting, recognizing, nullifying and removing Trojans from all types of computers and networks. The main drawback of AnitTrojans is that all AntiTrojans are inefficient in combating other types of viruses.

Unfortunately, users are left to choose between these separate products or purchase both of them. We have tested the best AntiVirus and AntiTrojan products to learn what is the best solution to protect your computer from Trojan horses.

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